Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in death he gave the Army a bad time. The Army was ready to bring his body back to the states, but could not locate any next-of-kin. Last week, after eleven months of looking, Pvt. Molotov's sister was found living in Manhattan. Said she: "Of course he is to come back. New York was his home. Karl loved this place...
...m.p.h. at sea level in air at 59° F.; 662 m.p.h. at 40,000 ft. at -67° F. † No kin to the ex-President...
...Alsop, now a thin-haired 37, became a journalist when his wealthy Connecticut family (kin to the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) decided that its fat and bookish son was good for nothing else. A discreetly pulled wire got him a job with the New York Herald Tribune. In its Washington bureau, where his first official appearance was at a White House party, he found politics more fun than Proust...
...kin to General Electric's late, great Physicist Charles Proteus Steinmetz...
...Clergy. In his will, Stephen Girard declared that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever" be allowed within the college wall. His next of kin, hoping to break the will on the basis of the anticlerical clause, once hired Daniel Webster to argue the case. Webster lost...