Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw out a pro-Nasser Cabinet 18 months ago, and even more so since the Iraqis murdered his Hashemite cousin King Feisal last July. Hussein has been isolated in the Arab world...
...first whiff of education can bring to primitive people. Jean-Marie Medza is a French Cameroons Negro who goes to college 40 miles from his native village, flunks his finals and returns home only to find himself saddled with a task for which college did not prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into the jungle, trying to feel like a modern conqueror but uneasy at the thought...
...17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...Tell them its American. Tell them its first cousin to Ham n' Eggs...
Married. Granville James Leveson Gower, 39, fifth Earl Granville and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; and Boon Aileen Plunket, 26, a granddaughter and heiress of the late Beer Tycoon (Guinness Stout) Ernest Guinness; in the Queen's Chapel, London...