Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ezra Taft Benson was asked to become Secretary of Agriculture last fall, he told Dwight Eisenhower: "General, no salary in the world could persuade me to take the job." Benson began to give Ike his reasons. First, he had not supported the Eisenhower nomination, had been for his distant cousin. Bob Taft, instead. Well, said Eisenhower, so were a lot of other patriotic Americans. Secondly, said Benson, he had often voiced doubts as to whether a military man should be in the White House. Answered Eisenhower: All the more reason to get good civilians in the Cabinet-like Benson. Benson...
...Certain Conflict. Victoria Mary Augusta Louisa Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, for 26 years Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India, was not always so beloved among her subjects. For all that she had been born in England, a cousin of Queen Victoria and a great-granddaughter of George III, the shy, penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne...
...years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant cousin that migrated to America from Asia during the golden age of mammals, some 12 million years...
...chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...