Word: nephew
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Uncle Buddy, a lively (and off-color) raconteur, regaled the young Clinton with tales of hunting dogs, life's ironies and the maxims people should live * by. Asked about his own family tragedies, he told his nephew, "Yes, life's tough, but I signed on for the whole trip." To this day Clinton calls his Uncle Buddy "the wisest man I ever met." (Clinton talks Southern hyperbole, which raises a language barrier for some Northerners.) He describes his uncle and his mother in the same terms: they have weathered many trials with unfailing equilibrium and good humor. There...
...behind this strip, which make it a decent choice for The Crimson, as opposed to say, Dennis the Menace or Marmaduke. Unfortunately, the strip doesn't seem to have much a of a storyline, other than running jokes about Roz's restaurant, the Professor's messy desk, or his nephew's poor performance in school...
...cleverest move Milosevic made in his years as an ambitious apparatchik was to hitch his star to Ivan Stambolic, a nephew of one of the most powerful Serbian communist leaders. For more than 20 years, Milosevic moved up the communist hierarchy in Stambolic's wake, succeeding him as director of the state-owned industrial gas conglomerate Tehnogas, as Belgrade chief of the Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia...
Bush did not fare nearly as well, receiving only two $500 gifts from one person; nephew and spring term Institute of Politics Fellow John Ellis...
Armed with a belching paint machine and handfuls of tiny crushed glass beads, Wayne A. Gentry and his nephew Richard D. Leite venture into the streets of Cambridge every night...