Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarmed through the streets, drawing their hands menacingly across their throats, firing their guns indiscriminately. Some of them were murderers and thieves whom the Germans, with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were the kin of men who had been executed by German firing squads, or shot on sight for being on the streets after curfew. They sought out Neapolitan Fascists to lynch them. Yelling girls ran with them. Older women gaped from doorways at the corpses of neighbors lying in gutters, screeched and waved...
...pilots too young to know better, some by veterans too skilled to give a damn. So long as a flyer lets off steam somewhere by himself, with plenty of room, the possible results are of primary interest only to his commander, the crash-wagon crew and the next of kin...
...bomber, on a routine training flight, crashed at 4:30 p.m., three miles east of the base. It is believed the entire crew of ten was killed. The plane was completely destroyed by fire. . . . Names of casualties are withheld until next of kin can be notified." So announced Gowan Field, Idaho...
Somewhere in North Africa, tough, profane Lieut. General George S. ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr. found time to answer a fan letter from ready-to-fight Bill (no kin) Patton, 10, of El Paso, Tex. Wrote the General: "Dear Bill ... I certainly hope that by the time you grow up we will be in a period of peace time, but you can be sure that during your lifetime there will be more wars...
Please send me that phonograph record of the "STAR SPANGLED BANNER". . . we kin...