Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even widespread suspicion that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow of a backbench Congress politician (no kin to the Mahatma), who has long been the Prime Minister's closest confidante (he calls her Indu, or Moon), official hostess and political troubleshooter...
...from a Monkey. Today, at least twoscore Americans are going about their business kept alive and active by kidneys transplanted from other people. Some of the donors were living at the time of the operation, some were dead; some were close kin, some unrelated. In Denver, Royal Jones, 12, went blind for a while because of kidney disease but is now well enough to play ball, thanks to a transplant last November from his mother. Another Denver patient, Jerry Will Ruth, 24, got a kidney from Brother Billy, 22; he pumps gas and greases cars, declares, "I feel as good...
...game. One, which permitted players to pick up the ball and run with it, soon evolved into rugby. The other version, which only permitted players to kick the ball, was soon formalized as a separate sport. In fact, soccer, or rugby without passing, today enjoys greater popularity than its kin in Scotland...
...handouts of white men's food, which would destroy their self-sufficiency and probably their health, or they could be moved elsewhere. They do not relish either prospect. Says Simon Paneak, head of the village council: "We only know how to live here." Though he remains close kin to Stone Age man, he understands the problems of radiation only too well. "It keeps getting higher and higher, and we just don't know what...
...arrive at the necessity of absolute tyranny," was Nechaev's sinister aphorism. In these terms he invented the conception of a revolutionary elite, above all moral law because it acted in the name of "the people." He proclaimed the abstract virtue of the "party" above all claims of kin or human obligation, and-generations before it had become a commonplace of totalitarian revolutionaries of left or right-he extolled the virtues of the lie as an instrument of the higher truth...