Word: kins
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Because the Mormon Church decrees that the living can offer the dead salvation through baptism, devout Mormons check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes...
...dictionary, which serves as a guide to British, rather than American usage was compiled by a woman, Joyce M. Hawkins, 50. Aware that "chairperson" and its kin (e.g., "spokesperson") are increasingly accepted in the U.S., she notes, "In this country, chairperson is treated with mild amusement." The huge Oxford English Dictionary first included "chairman" a century ago, and, as Hawkins points out, its original usage made no sexual distinction. Still, Hawkins' dictionary tolerates "chairwoman," which it defines as a "female chairman...
...unifying target for fragmented opposition. Modernization began earlier and was less hectic. It also produced a wider distribution of wealth and a stronger middle class than it did in Iran. Turkey's overwhelmingly Muslim population of 40 million includes 6 million Shi'ites, who are spiritual kin to those in Iran. But thanks to the secularization imposed on Turkey by its modern (1923) founder, Kemal Atatürk, religion is not nearly the force it has always been in Iran...
...just up the road at the site of the prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening in a house on the edge of town with friends and kin joining other local boys (Mac Lee and "Amos" Austin) in songs new and old to first-class guitar: mainly A Satisfied Mind...
...retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...