Word: cousin
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...Germans, who were already hurling V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rockets against London, were about to launch another pilotless secret weapon, the V-3, said to be capable of crossing the Atlantic in 40 minutes and hitting New York City. A worried Franklin Roosevelt told his cousin Daisy Suckley, in whom he sometimes confided, that his spy informed him the V-3 could kill everyone within a mile of impact. The Nazis were also experimenting with rockets launched from submarines, the idea being to send wolf packs to surface off New York City and reduce it to rubble...
...AMERICA, Sept. 24]. She captured our raw emotions, our evolving realization that the comfortable life we had been accustomed to changed forever on that fateful Tuesday. I don't want to take a moment or a person in my life for granted. I wrote a note to a cousin I haven't seen in years, thanking him for the job he does every day as a fireman. Bless you, Nancy, for stating so eloquently what we have been groping to say. WENDY MULLINS Severn...
...with schizo-affective disorder, whose cousin hacked her way out of the first floor of the Trade Center with an ax, calmly tells me he is glad she?s okay. "That?s my only story," he says, and asks for his prescription for Haldol, an anti-psychotic medication. A man with an almost crippling fear of leaving his apartment comes to his appointment. He is reorganizing his closets, "to do something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show...
...Jonathan Chu and Brian Wan. Chu teamed up with the team’s lone junior, Oliver Choo to defeat No. 34- ranked Notre Dame last week, after winning the Harvard invitiational two weeks ago. Wan, who was ranked No. 19 in under-18 juniors in 2001, is the cousin of professional tennis player Michael Chang...
...remember, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan had become, once again, America's ally. I was with my cousin in front of my grandfather's house. It had been raining, and water stood an inch deep on the lawn. Armed with three bricks, the two of us were battling nature. I would put a brick down and move onto it. My cousin would step onto the one I had left, and then he would hand forward the brick he had been standing on a moment before. We were most of the way across when my mother...