Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duong Van Minh, a tough, husky type whose mouth is filled with gold-capped broken teeth and who is regarded as one of the best officers in South Viet Nam. He is known as "Big" Minh, to distinguish him from Brigadier General Tran Van Minh, or "Little" Minh, no kin. He has no command at present, but serves as Diem's "military assistant...
...kin and not to be confused with James C. Fahey, compiler of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a data-packed softback that has sold over half a million copies...
Fish Out of Water. Compared with its giant kin, the Atlantic blue marlin and the black marlin, the white seems almost pygmyish. The biggest white mar lin ever boated weighed 161 lbs., as against rod-and-reel records of 810 lbs. for the blue and 1,560 lbs. for the black. But for fishermen who cannot afford to chase the blues to the Bahamas or the blacks to Panama, the silvery, long-billed white marlin is a mettlesome substitute. Pound for pound, it is one of the sea's most exciting and annoying game fish. Wily and wary...
...kin to Pioneer Sexologist Havelock Ellis...
...Havana, Javier's scholarship covered courses at the Institute de Cine Popular, run by a Cuban professor named Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), who gave Fidel Castro some of his first lessons in Marxism. Javier lived at "Peru House," where the house mother is Che Guevara's exwife, Peruvian-born Marxist Hilda Gadea. For five months he wrote home faithfully, then the letters stopped...