Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Florez faces some strong rivals, including Lieut. Colonel Rubén Dario Paredes, the deputy chief of staff and a moderate who once served as Torrijos' Agriculture Minister. Another potential rival for Florez: Lieut. Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Torrijos' cousin, who is considered to be a liberal...
...assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew what to do with screwdrivers and nails too. Living on a ranch made us very self-sufficient...
Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners is the newest cousin of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, the classic guide to British bluebloods, which dates back to 1802. The 400-page manual meanders from behavior in the presence of royalty (curtsying is no longer necessary-bowing from the neck will do) to homey advice on how to handle drunks or carve a chicken. It is all right now to turn your fork over and scoop peas up with the aid of a knife, notes the book, but only with elbows tight to the sides so the person alongside will...
...Deitch waited in line to consult the computer, another survivor complained that she would take up too much time with so many names to look up. Replied Mrs. Deitch, in tears: "It is better for you that your list isn't so long." Ultimately, she found a cousin who now lives in Miami...
...federal officials to take the fire more seriously. Then, last Valentine's Day, Todd Domboski, 12, went out to investigate smoke he saw rising from his grandmother's backyard, fell into a fuming hole that suddenly opened under his feet, and was saved only because a cousin had seen the accident and was able to pull...