Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library used income from a bequest of the American imagist poet, Amy Lowell, to purchase the manuscripts from the poet's grandson, Sir Charles Tennyson. Three-fourths of the approximately 650 drafts of the poems are in Tennyson's own handwriting...
...which in 1954 got Congress to take a few steps forward. Randall's latest job: a flying trip to Turkey as the President's special consultant to help a stout ally make economic sense. Inland's new boss: President Joseph L. Block, the founder's grandson, who has been running the company since...
Harlan, the grandson of a Supreme Court justice bearing the same name, is the junior member of the high court. He was appointed by President Eisenhower in November...
...first of the islands of Japan. Izanagi and Izanami descended to the new land, married, and began to people heaven and earth. By washing his left eye, Izanagi produced the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu O-mikami. She took over the rule of heaven and passed earth over to her grandson and his descendants, the Emperors of Japan...
Friedrich Adolf Sorge, the German-born music teacher and agitator who lived in the U.S., appeared as an American delegate at one of the first get-togethers of the Communist International at The Hague in 1872; he became a protege of Karl Marx. His grandson, Richard Sorge, was deeply involved in the onset and outcome of World War II, and once boasted: "If I had worked for the Allies, history would record my name in the same breath ... as Churchill and Roosevelt...