Word: cousin
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...developed Stilton nearly three centuries ago, are now marketing a product quaintly titled Lymeswold. The first European-style blue-veined full-soft cheese ever developed in the U.K., it resembles a German variety of Brie in texture and appearance; in flavor it is somewhat like Italian dolcelatte, a milder cousin of gorgonzola. It has a white rind, costs up to $5.70 per lb., and will last as long as six weeks in the refrigerator. The cheese was developed by the Milk Marketing Board, the national dairy cooperative, and is so popular at home that no supplies have yet been made...
...simple life, and bought out in her family a crafty brutality needed for survival. When the guerrillas wanted to take her eldest daughter Olga as a soldier, Eleni seared the girl's foot with boiling water and a glowing poker so that she could not go. A male cousin of Eleni's escaped being drafted by lacerating his neck with nettles and painting his throat every morning with diluted hydrochloric acid...
...Sweetness" was a word scorned by muscular America. It became "charm." And that is what T.R.'s fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt was all about, says James Rowe, the Washington lawyer who at 28 became F.D.R.'s executive assistant. Franklin made people like him and want to please him. At their first meeting in the Oval Office, Roosevelt threw his head back, beamed up at Rowe and said, "Jim, I want your advice." Rowe was captive for life...
During his two years in office, Ronald Reagan also has turned charm into power. Critics would contend it is the only thing sustaining his presidency. They may be right. Charm is a cousin once removed to style, which was one of John Kennedy's renowned qualities. Both go deeper than clothes and Irish stories...
Five minutes later the Eagles' defensive strategy came back to haunt them. With everybody and their cousin in front of the Eagle net, someone was bound to get called for blocking the shooting lane--exactly what happened at 17.03 in the first hall...