Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that is just what should be expected of a son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald (whose father boasted that she had turned down the marriage offer of that tea-making sail-boatin' Britisher Sir Thomas Lipton) and a grandson of Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald...
...slums of the Eleventh District shaving in back alleys before speaking appearances ("The Kennedy campaign trail," says a friend, "was littered with used razor blades"). And on the night of June 18, 1946, old Honey Fitz climbed onto a table to sing Sweet Adeline in celebration of his grandson's primary victory over eight other Democrats. The general election was a mere formality: Republicans do not get elected in the Eleventh District...
...noted European space authority and grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II added that the "whole civilized world is looking towards the United States for leadership" in the struggle for the control of space...
...which he underwent 33 operations. Freud had to wear a prosthesis, an artificial palate, which could never be made to fit comfortably, and which distorted his speech and face. His physical pain was compounded in this period by personal tragedies: the deaths of his daughter Sophie, his grandson, his mother, and the defection of his close friends, Rank and Ferenczi, both of whom subsequently died insane. These were "deep, narcissistic losses" to Freud...
...same detached, faintly surprised style. Anthony Glyn, 35, is by heredity both an empire builder, with ancestors in the Canadian hinterland and personal service as an apprentice planter in British Guiana, and a novelist: his grandmother Elinor set the century's early decades aflame with Three Weeks. Grandson Glyn has written an insider's account of the last outposts...