Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts, Republican Senatorial Candidate George Lodge argued that a time of crisis is a time to elect someone with experience. Democrat Ted Kennedy preferred to talk about medicare and job retraining, got a lift from House Speaker John McCormack, who pretended to forget that Ted had clobbered his nephew, Eddie, in the bitter Democratic primary. Said the Speaker about the President's youngest brother: "He's a great man, and he'll make a great Senator...
...this elusive semi-potential foe by contacting them through the CRIMSON. We have taken this whole affair as a terrible affront, the Brown club having established Ivy Ieague tiddlywinks in 1793. In the first match, our team, led by Roger Williams Brown, easily defeated John Harvard's bastard grand-nephew, Rufus. Our predominance in the field has not been contested since...
...school seal, Paul Revere engraved Finis Origine Pendet, a Calvinistic commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school that he sent his favorite nephew and eight grandnephews, and in 1789 addressed the student body on horseback...
...embraced Western ideas at college in Calcutta, returns to his father's home to discover that his wife has been deified, and tries to take her away with him. But she wavers: "What if I am a goddess? The child was cured"-and she stays behind. Her little nephew falls ill, and instead of being cared for by a doctor, the child is placed in the arms of the goddess. He dies. When her husband returns once more, determined to take her away, it is too late: she has gone...
Short Shrift. Soon after De Gaulle went off the air, Parliament assembled in an angry mood. In speech after speech, Deputies warned against the risk of dictatorship, reminding France that direct presidential elections in 1848 resulted in the seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...