Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Calixto Carias, "director" of a nonexistent artillery school, returned from a U.S. visit enthusiastic over beisbol* (baseball). Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...
Unimpeachable Source. In San Diego, a woman told police to look again; her missing nephew must be at the address she gave them. The Ouija board said...
...outfit" to which the President paid his dues was once the notorious and corrupt machine of old Boss Tom Pendergast; James M. Pendergast is Tom's nephew and political heir...
...rose to ask suspicious questions. Labor's Herbert Morrison countered: "There is something curious about this indignation of the Conservative Party over a little bit of territory's being added to the British Empire." The storm extended to the Brooke household. The Raja's good-looking nephew and onetime heir apparent, Anthony, wrote letters to the press denouncing his uncle's gift as an "anachronistic arrangement...
...Wish to God. . . ." Thereafter letters from Uncle Sam (who lived mostly in Elmira and Fredonia, N.Y.) to Nephew Charley (who scurried about New York City) followed at more or less daily intervals...