Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accept. It was a great moment for both their nations. After ten years of crises, discouragements and setbacks, France's and Egypt's money had finally driven the canal through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together 500 of the best cooks and 1,000 servants from Marseille, Trieste and Genoa. For the diversion of the expected guests, an open-air opera house had been built near the Great Pyramid...
...followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone infallible," he once told his followers, "it is only me-only...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
...First cousin to ECAmbassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman...
Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...