Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Invented by an Amsterdam engineer named Luud Schimmelpennink -apparently no kin to the Dutch cigar manufacturer of that name-Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...
Kazuo Shimada, a Tokyo psychologist, contends that Japanese mourners who cannot see the ashes of their fallen kin imagine the departed souls "aimlessly wandering and wailing for help." Explains one war widow who joined a senseki jumpai: "One night I dreamed a dream in which my husband stood in the corner of my room. He was full of spleen and said that even though he had committed suicide in a cave deep in a jungle, nobody had come...
...love and practice expediency. Before her on-again, off-again brain registers what is happening, Martha's house has been converted into a small nursing home called Golden Age Acres and filled with motel lobby furniture, polyethylene philodendrons, and assorted old folks eagerly abandoned by their own loving kin...
...last week to "presumed dead." Mrs. Meir burst into tears as she accepted the list from Kissinger in her office. General David Elazar, Israel's chief of staff, was also on the verge of weeping as he handed the list to subordinates to begin notification of next of kin...
...Price, Dean of the Kennedy Law School, said Monday that the Corporation confirmed his selection for the God kin lecturer during the Christmas recess...