Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woolly slug is concentrated in eleven states from Maryland to Missouri and Texas, but it has close kin in the Northeast: the caterpillar of the white moth, Lagoa crispata. Other common stingers are the range and saddleback caterpillars, and those of the buck, lo, tussock and brown-tail moths. Where the caterpillars are especially abundant, their hairs may fly through the air in such numbers as to bring on asthma attacks in children who never even touch the beast directly...
...biographer, who in nine impressively documented books (Bradford of Plymouth, Captain John Smith) retraced the paths of early American history and came to some surprising conclusions: that William Bradford (an ancestor) had aimed the Mayflower at New England, not Virginia, as historians supposed, and that Captain John Smith (no kin) was indeed saved by Pocahontas, a tale long suspected as too tall to be true; of cancer; in Shaftsbury...
...kin to the Times of London, a 179-year-old daily institution...
...Ford, ranking Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, whose views favoring an ever stronger U.S. defense posture generally coincide with Barry's, a husky 51-year-old who would campaign aggressively. He is little known nationally, although (who knows?) some voters might mistake him for kith or kin to the Ford family of Michigan...
...program, shaped in no small part by Cohen, calls for closer SEC regulation of the securities markets, perhaps leading to lower brokerage commissions among other changes. It stems largely from the SEC's massive 1963 stock market study (which, coincidentally, was led by Chicago Lawyer Milton Cohen, no kin to the new chairman). Gary made a strong pitch to Lyndon Johnson to pick Cohen, who was already a member of the five-man commission, as the new chairman, and Cohen was not hurt by his close friendship with White House Special Counsel Myer Feldman. Johnson was also under pressure...