Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is his coldblooded nephew, who is jilting papa's daughter for an heiress...
...Burns, a Vienna-born Columbia professor to be his economic adviser; 3) Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, financial adviser to the Rockefellers and former member of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be White House liaison ad viser on atomic energy matters; 4) Douglas MacArthur II, longtime Foreign Service officer, nephew of the general, to be counselor for the State Department...
...swelling classes. Every penny he saved went into the school fund. He begged land and donations from friends, even sold the jeweled decoration that King Alfonso XIII had given him ("What use have I for this fancy bauble?"). He began a special class for future teachers, started his two nephews toward the priesthood. Today, 30 years after his death, Ave Maria still flourishes, run by 75-year-old nephew Pedro...
...nephew of the great "Pudge" Heffelfinger, alltime great (guard) of Yale's 1889-91 football team, now 85 and relaxing in Texas...
...Bordeaux, Judge Marcel Nussy Saint-Saëns (nephew of the composer) had delayed his verdict until 1 a.m. to avoid a public demonstration of quite another kind. There, not far from the desolate ruin of Oradour, feeling had run high all month long as witnesses told of the grisly mass murder. Paris newspapers had built the story up into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death...