Word: kins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning 25, Japan's slender, donnish Prince Akihito downed green tea and bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers...
...cancer patients when they know the end is near, and in some unrelated disorders where its apparent value is not fully understood, e.g., angina pectoris and rheumatoid arthritis. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (which markets iproniazid as Marsilid) and rival manufacturers have brought out drugs that are close chemical kin to iproniazid but with fewer drawbacks...
Flood or Fire. What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth? "My parents died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed...
...right accommodating man even if he didn't wear shoes except in chilling weather; and with Uncle Tom Dixon, who favored tales where things go in threes. Most all the stories are tales the tellers had always just known, tales that were told in the generations of their kin, way back to the old country across the ocean waters. Some few, maybe, came to them from a Tally, or foreigner, who worked round in the mines, or a passing Irishman. Big Nelt remembers the Irishman as "not to say old, not to say young. Where he came from...
Within the next 24 hours those involved in the crashes or their next of kin will be interviewed by clinical pyschologists. Meanwhile, basic data on the crash will be gathered, and several staff members will study the cases from their respective points of view. Finally, a Roman Catholic priest will evaluate the facts of the crashes from a moral and ethical stand point...