Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commander in chief of the NATO Mediterranean fleet based on Malta, and the Queen Mother's reported distaste for Edwina has produced a notable coolness between the Mountbattens and Buckingham Palace. Philip, though still fond of Uncle Louis and Aunt Edwina, is reportedly well aware that his kinship may now become more hindrance than help. But he remains a Battenberg, and so does his son, the next King of England. In 100 years, the blood of the Battenbergs has risen from obscurity on the banks of the Rhine to the threshold of the highest throneroom on earth...
...housing of tomorrow that excites Gropius most. "In the future," he says, "the artist is to be the brother of the engineer and manufacturer . . . What we need is a unity . . . An old New England town, with its white buildings, has a unity and kinship, but when you look closely, every single one of these white buildings differs from all the rest. A house with 100,000 exact duplicates is not the answer . . . The machine must be adapted to the individual.. . . Machines can cut costs and improve quality by making millions of prefabricated parts, and yet the houses built from...
...turned cynically against the white man's faith and values. But he has not. The Negro does feel bitter about his lot. But it is a bitterness greatly modified by hope, patience and humor. Negro intellectuals occasionally talk "African nationalism." But the majority of U.S. Negroes feel no more kinship to the Kikuyu of Kenya than to the man in the moon. They want to be, above all, Americans...
...bears the largest share of the responsibility for the strike is Lovett's boss. Seven months ago, when the steel strike was imminent, Harry Truman felt the tug of all the complex influences which have grown out of organized labor's long kinship with the Democratic Party. He reacted instinctively - i.e., with reckless political partisanship. He abandoned Government's position of impartiality to rush to the side of labor, and in so doing, he tumbled into a constitutional crisis. He displayed an uncanny talent for demanding negotiations when they had no chance to succeed, for upsetting negotiations...
...Babies who appear lifeless at birth because their mothers have been heavily dosed with morphine and sister drugs during labor may now be saved by another related drug (n-allyl-normorphine). Philadelphia's Dr. James E. Eckenhoff explained that despite the close chemical kinship, it is an antagonist to morphine and a quick antidote...