Word: kinsfolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my jamiliar friends have forgotten me . . . I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. My breath is strange to my wife...
...mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae (their existence was unknown until 1932). Kuru was first noted in 1951. The disease has not only decimated the Fore, but has become an obsession in their sorcery beliefs. When a kuru victim dies, the kinsfolk pick out a sorcerer suspected of responsibility for the death, do away with him in a gruesome ritual murder called tukavu, in which they pulverize his muscles with stones and bite out his jugular...
...cubbyhole without air conditioning. Sonali, whose husband is now reported determined to divorce her, was dead set on leaving India and realizing her long-squelched (by hubby) ambition to become a big-name cinemactress. A newshawk asked Rossellini if he had ever told one of Sonali's kinsfolk that he wants to marry her. Suavely replied Roberto: "On the spur of the moment you say things you are not responsible for." Meanwhile, Sonali stayed put in her plush, air-conditioned quarters while the jasmine-scented nights of Bombay grew oppressively hotter...
...future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs"), drive home a folksy Ford (Motor Co.) commercial, or tug tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version...