Word: father-in-law
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...deplaned at New York's Idlewild Airport for a U.S. visit, Aleksei Adzhubei, 37, a pudgy, fair-haired carbon of Father-in-Law Nikita Khrushchev, was pointedly asked by a U.S. newsman: "As editor of Izvestia, are you responsible for the policies of the paper and its editorial content?" The Red editor's first reaction was a reflex affirmative. His second, delivered in the only English he used during the interview: "Maybe...
Your story of the Shakers reminded me of an account of a Shakers' meeting in the memoirs of my late father-in-law, when he was a boy in Maine a hundred years ago. He went with his grandfather, a Freewill Baptist, more out of curiosity, I gather, than anything else. He always remembered the men's guttural voices and the women's shrill and squeaky as they came on the dance floor suiting their actions to their song...
...advisers. Hoping somehow to crack Khrushchev's illusion that the West would not stand firm, the President explained his position to junketeering Journalist Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law and editor of Izvestia. Said Kennedy: "I just want to make sure that you and your father-in-law have no doubts about our position in Berlin." Adzhubei promised to carry the message home to the Kremlin...
...undefined capacity as father-in-law to Democratic foreign policy makers, he can be at once a critic of and an adviser to the present Administration. ("Actually I have...
...onetime Wall Street broker, Orvil Dryfoos married Sulzberger's first daughter, Marian, in 1941. two years later went to work for his father-in-law. From then on, his rise was prompt and predictable: vice president and Times director in 1954, Times president in 1957. Ever since Sulzberger suffered a stroke three years ago, Dryfoos has been publisher in nearly everything but title...