Word: descendantal
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Adam Dwyer, a respectable lawyer and descendant of a prominent Providence family, learns that he has leukemia and roughly half a year to live. Shortly after this bad news, Dwyer's house is burglarized. He is not especially surprised, given his courtroom exposures to petty crooks and his knowledge of...
The lean Chianina was developed at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and is expected to be in Texas supermarkets in late summer. It has 25% less fat and 36% fewer calories than ordinary beef, although the cholesterol content is not significantly lower. Chianina is a descendant of a breed raised...
During the past decade, his work has become coherent and confident again, partly by means of a lightly worn classicism. For the Zueblin construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental...
The first 12,500 copies of Callanetics (William Morrow & Co.; $17.95) barely managed to sell after a brief tour by the author; the second edition of 5,000 simply lay there. But Pinckney, a rebel of long standing, refused to give up. A ninth-generation descendant of a founding family...
Now that Hearst has appointed himself editor, he is looking for someone to fill the newly created post of executive editor. McCulloch turned the job down but agreed to run day-to-day operations until the slot is filled. Hearst dismisses any suggestion that if he insists on ultimate control...