Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the verdict of Appomattox, the doctrine of interposition now walks through the South again. Last week, in the Virginia Senate, on Robert E. Lee's birthday, State Senator Harry Carter Stuart, a great-nephew of General Jeb Stuart, introduced a resolution "Interposing the sovereignty of the State against the encroachment upon the reserved powers of this State." Borrowing the adjectives of Madison, the resolution condemned the Supreme Court's decision as "a deliberate, palpable and dangerous attempt ... to usurp the amendatory power that lies solely with not fewer than three-fourths of the States." Crying "We have...
...meantime, Michales' teen-age nephew has killed Nuri Bey's nephew, and the Turko-Cretan blood bath has begun. Kazantzakis is not one to blink the horrors of war. Eyes are gouged, heads are lopped, women are raped, priests are lynched, villages are burned...
...Bill Russell was trained to be an athlete. But basketball was not part of the plan; in Monroe, La., where Bill was born, a Negro boy's prospects for first-class high-school training in basketball were close to zero. Bill's Uncle Bob decided that his nephew should grow up to be a baseball player. If Bill developed into a lefthanded pitcher, he might play good enough ball on Monroe's sand lots to earn a college scholarship. So Uncle Bob started early to convert a naturally righthanded boy into a southpaw...
...plot concerns an aging wolf who manages to marry his nephew's intended. Once the marriage contract is signed, the sweet little bride turns into an extravagant shrew, and the poor fellow finds himself so hopelessly outmaneuvered that he is delighted to give the girl back to his nephew. The Met cast mercifully played everything in low key rather than for low comedy...
...plunged a legal fork into an Italian macaroni company. On the tines of her suit: Maria's ex-physician and husband's brother-in-law, Dr. Giovanni Cazzarolli, the Pastificio Pantanella Co. and Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, who is Pastificio's legal eagle as well as a nephew of Pope Pius XII. La Callas, 31, weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed by the pasta firm in ads, stating that she had shed an unsvelte 44 Ibs. by gobbling quantities of Pastificio Pantanella's dietetic...