Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balding Amor Hollingsworth was also there to see his "first cousin once removed," Arthur, row in this year's j.v. race for the Crimson. There were no unforeseen catastrophes; Harvard got--and stayed--miles ahead...
Fire fighters battling brushfires in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest have long had to cope with an occupational hazard beyond that of smoke and flames: poison oak, the Western cousin of poison ivy. Not only do they risk coming into contact with the vine, but they also breathe in fumes from its burning leaves, often resulting in infections of the eyes, throat and lungs, as well as rashes and itching skin. "It's almost everywhere," says Forest Service Researcher Jerry Oltman. "It's a real problem...
...long after the assassination. In a new book that Ted Kennedy's press secretary has bitterly denounced, Authors Peter Collier and David Horowitz offer a procession of harrowing stories not only about David's adventures with drugs but also about those of his older brother Bobby and cousin Chris Lawford. According to Horowitz and Collier, David began to shoot heroin in the fall of 1973, his senior year at Middlesex School in Concord, Mass...
That's right, earthlings. In Supergirl, which is due out this summer, we learn that the Man of Steel has a cousin, Kara, who fled the doomed city of Argo, a floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve...
...same time, however, Texaco was waging its own frontal assault on Getty. In early February number-six Texaco beat number-nine Getty, having come up with $12 billion to buy out the smaller cousin--setting a new record for the biggest corporate takeover...