Word: cousine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Darby admits that his Business School courses have been "very useful" but not entirely to the point in preparing him for a gambling career. "Actually the biggest help of all was cousin Utie giving me his wind figures. He's really one of the few people in the country who understands the wind, and although not many people on the New York racing circuit know of him, he is highly respected at the Maryland tracks where he does most of his betting. And of course Uncle Jack was a big help...
...They had more personal reasons as well. One of the Cabinet members who resigned is married to Gomaa's daughter, another to Gomaa's sister-in-law. The departed War Minister, Mohammed Fawzi, is a cousin of Sami Sharaf. And ex-Information Minister Mohammed Fayek is married to the niece of Ali Sabry...
...real rule of the country falls to a "Premier-Delegate." He is Sisowath Sirik Matak, 57, the shrewd and ambitious administrator who had been virtually running Cambodia anyway as Vice Premier and Lon Nol's closest confidant. Sirik Matak is not only a cousin, but also an old foe of Sihanouk, and he is widely assumed to have been the chief architect of the plot that ousted the prince 15 months...
Further South, another cousin told me about his friend, the "hippie of Beauregard High School," who always carries around a little done in his wallet. My aunt and uncle would be horrified if they knew that one of their son's friends smokes pot: my cousin himself is a Wallace man, but he isn't upset about his friend's proclivities...
Defiance, while it has affected the young, has apparently not been able to isolate them. They live in their double world of racism and revolution, of Woodstock and George Wallace, unsure whether to follow the leaders of their generation or of their parents. As my Birmingham cousin's mother said, "At his age, it's easy for him to get involved in these movements and things." The youth of the deep South are for the first time facing a significant alternative to the traditional values of their parents. The strength with which that alternative reaches them will be the crucial...