Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the U.S. should present to the Soviet Union a number of ultimatum demands, and that these should be supported by force . . . We shall reply to Senator Wiley . . . without going into details: 'You started dancing on the wrong foot, Cousin...
Third Degree. Lieut. Colonel (then Major) Thomas D. Harrison, a West Point Air Force officer and a cousin of the U.N. chief armistice negotiator, got harsher punishment for not cooperating. Shot down in May 1951 in his F80 plane...
...Majesty's Army had a volunteer: the Duke of Kent, 17-year-old first cousin of Queen Elizabeth and seventh in succession to the throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
Then Agustin, a cousin of the Bringases, came back from America, and Amparo's situation began to look up. Agustin was a jewel of a man, kind, modest, a bit awkward socially, but enormously rich, and generous to a fault. Pushing 45, he was by all odds the finest catch in Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak...
...Windows. Back home, Byron plunged into a round of affairs with the most famous beauties in England. After four years of it, he married Annabella Milbanke, the cousin of Lord Melbourne, "the most silent woman I ever encountered," he wrote with some concern. "I like them to talk, because then they think less." His wedding, however, "went off very pleasantly, all but the [kneeling] cushions, which were stuffed with peach-stones, I believe, and made me make a face which passed for piety." In the next year Byron lived in a peace of spirit that is most purely appreciable...