Word: son-in-law
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...twelfth year since his regime unilaterally broke away from Britain. The festivities may mark the last time that whites in Rhodesia can celebrate that particular act of independence. But the mood at the ball was stubbornly defiant. In the spirit of the occasion, Smith's folk-singing son-in-law, Clem Tholet, gave a con brio rendition of Rhodesians Never Die, whose chorus vows...
During a conversation, I mentioned that I had a son-in-law who spoke Mandarin. Our interpreter-guide told us that the Chinese have dropped that class-conscious word...
...under the brand name of Land's Sakes. "It's come from the East, and is working its way West, just like the Rocky Mountain tick coming the other way." A prize victim of this plague of sophistication is Farmer Herkimer ("Heck") Brown, Ma's son-in-law, who has taken up with a fast crowd in Middle City. Heck now wears E.E. Cummings T shirts, affects an "inner-city laugh" and argues that both monogamy and the Puritan work ethic are strictly for the crows. When Wife Hattie asks him to dust the crops, Heck quips...
Humphrey then returned a call from George McGovern, who was urging him to get in the race, and left the office with his wife. The two went home to their Washington apartment, along with their son-in-law, Bruce Solomonson. For three hours the Humphreys discussed the whole situation: their life together, their ages, their finances, their obligations. The phone kept ringing. Sometimes Humphrey would suddenly jump up as he remembered someone he wanted to call...
Nixon's other son-in-law, Edward Cox, 29, denies the book's claim that he had expressed fear of a Nixon suicide and insists that he never said the President was walking the White House halls at night, "talking to the pictures on the wall." Eisenhower supports Cox's denial...