Word: kinsfolk
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...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...
Soon after Pearl Harbor, the Press developed a Saturday feature called The Home Front, a four-column, brightly written condensation of Cleveland news about such everyday things as traffic accidents, deaths, fires, crimes, oddities, politics, sports. Readers were expected to clip the section, mail it to kinsfolk in the service. But ordinary mail took so long that the news was stale when it arrived...
...undermine the civil authority of Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union in Ukrainian districts, 2) to work up a separatist movement, 3) to create incidents which will eventually make "necessary" Ruthenia's-i.e., Nazi Germany's-intervention to restore "law and order," and liberate Ukrainian kinsfolk...
...poet: a six-foot, 207-lb., 30-year-old Kentucky hillbilly named Jesse Stuart. In those poems, as in his book of stories that followed two years later (Head o' W-Hollow), Jesse Stuart wrote prolifically, ingenuously, sometimes amazingly well about his mountain kinsfolk, neighbors and scenery...