Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked out only after Aeroflot sent letters of sympathy, and symbolic, empty urns to the victims' next of kin, along with 300 rubles ($333) each in compensation. The Soviet obsession with secrecy-especially about major accidents-naturally breeds suspicions that there may have been other air crashes that went unreported...
...significance of Wakefield's discovery is that it may help solve a major evolutionary riddle: How did the webbed feet of the amphibians evolve from the paddle-shaped fins of their fish ancestors? Possibly his creature may be kin to a little (3-ft.-long) lizard-like amphibian called Ichthyostega, whose remains have been found in Greenland. The outward-pointing feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield...
Police are convinced that the new devices make convictions much easier. "If a forger is leaving a trail of bad checks, all using different aliases," says Redwood City, Calif., Police Chief John McDonald (no kin to Hugh), "we can easily put them together with the thumbprints and prove grand theft." That word seems to be getting around, discouraging paper hangers from even trying their craft in stores that require thumbprints. Authorities estimate that the rate of bad checks has been cut by 50% in most such outlets. The devices have proved doubly effective at some stores. Last month an Alec...
Nearly half a century ago, Quentin Reynolds (no kin to the late writer) was a fruit clerk in an Oakland grocery store, and Safeway Stores was a small California supermarket chain. Since then, both have had more than the normal diet of success. Early last year the powerfully built and congenial Reynolds, 66, was named chairman of Safeway, which has no mandatory retirement rule for that job. Now, for the first time, Safeway is the world's largest food retailer. Last week the chain reported sales of $5,511,000,000, just squeaking...
...your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff, I put the ax to at least 300 stills, but I never did his, he bein' my kin. One time he and his old woman had a fallin' out, and she come down to get a warrant. See, he gets to drinkin' his own likker and comes home and beats on her, and she gets all hot and comes down and tells the law where...