Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year of Ian Smith's white supremacist regime was complicated by one fact: most of Rhodesia's 220,000 whites are of British stock. Had it been otherwise, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson would not have been afraid to use British troops against "our kith and kin." Nor would Smith, whose father emigrated from Scotland, have felt it necessary to declare Rhodesia's "continued allegiance" to the Queen-and keep the Union Jack flying. But family ties can go only so far. Last week Smith suggested that the last thin thread to London would soon...
...Marx (no kin), who died this month at 69, was happy to say that Kiesinger was indeed a close and trusted friend. The paper that Marx founded in 1946 has been on intimate terms with top Bonn politicians since the establishment of the West German Republic. It wields an influence far beyond its 50,000 circulation, most of which goes to non-Jewish readers. The Jewish Weekly has not only served as the uncontested voice of Germany's diminished Jewish population of 30,000 (from a prewar 500,000), it has also played a major role in shaping German...
...distributed among his surviving relatives, including spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers and sisters, their children and the decedent's cousins-on past fourth cousins. Kruse had never married, and his spinster sister Ann had died years before. After long digging, the bankers finally traced his nearest kin: six cousins, whom Ottawa County Probate Judge Fred Miles duly named Kruse's heirs last June...
...ness of the state, and the state, of course, was Louis. He rode often to the wars and received progress reports every day on the building at Versailles. He rode to hounds, but was less diligent in reading dispatches from the front; some bastard of his-or some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite eaten away"), though on the battlefield...
...foremost American military analysts by assuming the burden of a ground war between Asians in Asia." At home, the Constitution was being eroded by "the swollen powers of the President" and the "judge-made legislation" of the Supreme Court. The Great Society had become "both kith and kin" to the total welfare state...