Word: kinfolks
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...Massachusetts, a state where (as in New Hampshire, New York, Iowa) formidable thought has gone into programs to bring longer and fuller life to the aged, 5% of people over 65 live in old people's homes. The rest are in their own homes or those of kinfolk...
...state, and explaining that they had lived in idleness too long to be expected to work. Two months ago, when the Indian tax bureau offered to buy the princes' palace as a new headquarters for itself, Yadavindra jumped at the chance to rid the neighborhood of his useless kinfolk. He signed the deeds and served an evacuation notice...
...sent evil that we can never escape." The vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid vaccine spoils in the heat of Iran's outlying districts, where there is no refrigeration). Next came the women, breaking Moslem tradition by letting men other than their kinfolk touch them. The children yelled at the prick of the vaccinators, but a rearguard of tribesmen pushed them ahead. Band after band of Bakhtiari gained the pass, and the vaccinators worked on. By day's end their score was 3,007 inoculations...
Accent on Kinfolk. Congressmen have attacked Administrator McLeod for not cutting through the tangled mass of red tape in the law Congress passed and for delay in processing applications for entry visas. McLeod answers that it took time to build up a staff and to get cases into the processing pipeline (average time per case: six months). Since he now has a staff of 2,000, however, his performance is ten refugees admitted for each employee...
...jagged dirt road-really a dry creek-bed-to his farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five children alone in the ramshackle house on the wild, hard land...