Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Indira Nehru, Oxford-graduate daughter of Indian Nationalist leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; and Lawyer Pheroz Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma); in Bombay...
...reporters gathered in the bare room on Chungking hill, they chatted about the news, which they had already heard. Finally China's official spokesman, onetime Ambassador to Russia Dr. T. F. Chiang* (no kin), came in. Man-of-the-world, he showed no particular excitement as he said in faultless English...
...lately electrocuted Murder, Inc. killer, Martin ("Buggsy") Goldstein, left a $12,000 life-insurance policy to his widow. Prudential Insurance Co. contended it would be "against public policy" to pay it, since a man who knows that his kin are cared for may be more likely to commit a crime. Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, in U.S. District Court last week, finding no precedent for the case, thought otherwise. Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal...
...badly sunburned researcher, Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh (no kin), remembered the soothing effects of natural sulfur waters, tried Hydrosulphosol, a drug made of powdered sulfur and water, as a substitute. So pleased was he that he started experiments on real burns...
...spite of its name, it is no kin to the complex, miracle-working sulfonamide drugs, which contain sulfur, ammonia, benzene...