Word: kins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often runs his command post in a grey flannel suit or tweed sports coat and slacks, who decorates his command post with an impressionistic oil painting of the U.S.'s first liquid-fuel rocket superimposed upon a plumed Chinese war rocket supposedly used by the Kin Tartars at the seige of Kaifeng (12321,* they recognize him as tomorrow's man. "Discerning, thinking leader . . . outstanding and extremely tenacious manager ... he has a big project concept" they say, adding that they "have great regard for his motivations." For Ben Schriever is a tireless, able, dedicated, imaginative officer who is respected...
Chill winds whipped across Kansas last week, smearing drought-mulched dust across the sky in dismal yellows. But things were not quite so grim as they looked. In Emporia, Farmer Robert George, 50-year-old bachelor, was teased by his kin for getting married, they said, on "Government rent." Ex-servicemen heading for the state V.F.W. convention joked about the wheat crop they had "already harvested." Some vacation-minded farmers counted their "Florida money." One and all, they were talking about the payments they get from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's soil bank for taking land...
...kin to D. B. Wyndham Lewis, British humorist (The .Stuffed Owl) and biographer (François Villon...
...Hopkins University's Dr. Winston H. Price reports what appears to be a major breakthrough in the war against the encephalitides. The technique depends on family similarity: immunity against two or three members of the B virus family, it appears, gives immunity against the rest of their deadly kin...
...neither popes nor accounting firms could fully resolve the why and how of Ivar Kreuger. Perhaps the French came closest when they dubbed him L'Olseleur, the bird charmer. In disinterring the Kreuger story, Author Allen Churchill (no kin to Winston), onetime managing editor of the American Mercury, enjoys the valuable quarter-century distance that lends disenchantment. His research is sometimes superficial and his prose tabloidish, but he captures the flair and flavor of the Napoleonic con man who was the Match King...