Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows, the most popular toy-poodle tonsure is the English saddle cut, designed to leave the little dogs looking like lions. On Wilber's larger cousin, the standard poodle, the saddle cut once served a purpose. When the standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...
With the nation scraping the bottom of its high-grade iron deposits and steel capacity due to rise 60% (to 216 million tons yearly) by 1980, the development of such low-grade ores as jasper and its cousin, taconite, has become one of the fastest-growing branches of the booming steel industry. Items...
...Union City, N.J., Hudson County Prosecutor Frederick T. Law neglected to tell all the members of his team that he planned to raid a local bookmaker's establishment, encountered at the scene: a city detective, a police lieutenant, one of the mayor's aides, the father and cousin of the deputy police chief...
...Grandmother of Our Saviour [Dec. 26] ... But if this "Anne" was so wonderful, why didn't her daughter Mary turn at once, and naturally, to her at the moment of the Annunciation? In Mary's moment of perplexity, amazement and exhilaration, she went with haste to her cousin Elisabeth and stayed with her for about three months! (Luke 1:39 and 56.) (THE REV.) FRANK LAWRENCE...
...less striking than Ratte's and Cumming's sketches, is Mary Meade Harnett's portrayal of the plight of a maiden lady who feels that her life has been sacrificed to the whims of her relatives. Mis Harnett makes her story especially complex by introducing another spinster's sickly cousin. Be delineating the character and thoughts of first one and then the other (rather than intermingling them) she expresses the barrier which has arisen between them. But while this separate characterization adds to the feeling of the hopelessness of their relationship, it still jars the reader when suddenly, midway through...