Word: kins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel's Passage. His assurances were hardly enough. A Colored who becomes a card-carrying white must uproot himself and his family from home, job, friends and kin to enter a world in which he may never be fully accepted. In one recent case, Edward Raubenheimer, a relatively well-to-do Cape Town Colored school principal, learned that his older, less successful brother Daniel had been reclassified as white at age 67. White status was simultaneously conferred on Daniel's wife, who is the daughter of a Colored woman and a white salesman, and their four children...
...skippered the nuclear submarine Nautilus on man's first voyage under the polar icecap, to head up the not-yet-existent National Service Corps, sometimes referred to as the domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired as CNO the same day-will serve as a "presidential consultant" on the project. > Telephoned greetings to Harry Truman on his 79th birthday. > Told his midweek press conference that he was "not hopeful" about the prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement with...
...recent addition to the Sox, but obviously an old kin in spirit, Dick Stuart still hasn't quite learned the knack of running. But then with his big, authoritative bat, he doesn't have to hustle on the base paths; he either homers or strikes out. Singles seem beneath his dignity...
...Portsmouth seven officers, most of them skippers of other submarines, manned a battery of phones and began calling the next-of-kin. They read a terse message: "U.S.S. Thresher is overdue, and we are investigating and will keep you informed as we receive information." About a dozen wives came to the base for the vigil, and Navy chaplains sat with them. At 11:30 the men on the phones changed their message: "We have heard no more from Thresher. We hold very little hope for survivors. Official announcement will probably come later from Washington." They kept up the calls until...
Halothane (C2HBrCIF3) is chemically kin to chloroform, which has long been accused of causing occasional liver damage. First synthesized in England in 1951, halothane was cautiously tested and carefully evaluated. By the time it was released for U.S. distribution by Ayerst Laboratories under the trade name Fluothane, it had been adjudged harmless in 10,000 human cases...