Word: kinsfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in New Zealand after the war, he turned to the scientific study of his Polynesian kinsfolk, traveling all over the Pacific to record their customs and help solve their problems. He joined the Bishop Museum in Honolulu as a field anthropologist and became its director in 1932. In 1946 he was knighted by George...
...answer to Cassandra was the same as it had always been: there was something in what she said about Troy's parlous position, but it was her kinsfolk who went on to found Rome...
...widower held an unsteady umbrella against India's brilliant sun. About his shawled figure pressed kinsfolk and friends, chanting Hindu, Moslem, Parsi and Christian prayers. Intently he looked upon the burning ghat...
...every woman jill of them was a volunteer, who had endured the cheap jokes and poor public reactions of the WAAC's early weeks. WAACs were sure that if enrollment had not proceeded according to plan the fault lay with the plan-and with U.S. women and kinsfolk...
...Angeles, slick-haired, 18-year-old Amos Raymond Latshaw coolly confessed the murder of five kinsfolk. When his father and stepmother fell to arguing, Amos shot and killed them both; then to cover up, killed his grandfather and grandmother. His eight-year-old brother stood by, crying, "So I let him have...