Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
Despite many contrary opinions, Reynard still plainly considers himself as a much put-upon individual, "as faultless as a newborn infant ... a man of piety and a pillar of religion." As Grimbart the Badger, his long-suffering nephew, often pointed out, Reynard was frequently to be found at his devotions...
...Britain's Lieut. Viscount Lascelles, nephew of King George...
...mung. American visitors to the Espey home usually called spindly-legged little John Espey "Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only...
...different. Last week an Army promotion list raised three aviators to three-star rank, making a total of ten Army airmen with the rank of lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 51, who runs the world's biggest airline...