Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staffed with all three. Unseen on an upper floor is the dying Tinkbell, a butler before whom employers cringe, quite apart from guests. The current butler and harried man-of-all-work, Maitland (Donal Donnelly), has done five years in jail as a conscientious objector. He is a flavorsome cousin of Bernard Shaw's servants, brimming with querulous grievance...
...through Harvard Yard twice a day, everyday when I went to high school." Greenidge explains. The 34-year-old Northeastern graduate has many close ties to the area His family still lives in Boston, and his brother is head coach of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin football team. His cousin, Stanley Greenidge '68, was a star linebacker for the Crimson in the late studies...
Piano lessons are compulsory. Sex education is an accelerated course in child abuse: a newly arrived immigrant cousin spends himself on Kate's leg; an avuncular friend of her family's gropes her at the movies, and a barber's free hand wanders under the sheet. Years later, Mamma tells her daughter that she had 13 abortions. It was not a neighborhood record...
...only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word...
...midst of Baltimore's recently rejuvenated Inner Harbor--that city's version of Faneuil Hall--sits an outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...