Word: kins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant, 35, a former Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took the better part of three days...
...robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called Giacobini-Zinner, which will appear a few months ahead of its famous kin...
...advice he lowers himself before you and thus disables your wrath by your own sense of shame. Then too there is the help-giving enemy, who attempts to pile so much generosity about your head that you are brought to your knees in response. There is the next-of-kin enemy as well, who takes out on a loved one the wickedness he intends for you. Finally, there is the worthiest of the lot, the open-and-aboveboard enemy, who declares straight out that he yearns for your obliteration. Unfortunately, people of this type are so admirable that the temptation...
...Emperor who was imprisoned by Cortées. But the find turned out to be even more important. Spurred by concerned archaeologists, the Mexican government authorized a systematic excavation of the old temple. During 4½ years of methodical work under the direction of Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (no kin), the diggers uncovered all four of the Great Temple's sides, discovering that it was a far more complex structure than early chronicles had suggested. Begun in 1325, it was constructed in successive stages, each Aztec Emperor making his own contribution by building a new temple...
...Saudis insist that a revolution like the one that occurred in Iran could not happen in their country. But they do have a large Shi'ite Muslim minority, ethnic kin to Iranian Shi'ites, who have traditionally been disadvantaged. After the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 and the startling uprising by religious extremists at the Grand Mosque in Mecca later that year, King Khalid acted to improve contacts with disaffected elements in his country...