Word: son-in-law
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...technicians abroad to learn the latest postwar methods used by foreign mills-and to buy the best available machinery regardless of where it was made. "In equipping our plants," crows Stratos, "we draw on the advanced technology of everyone else." Under Stratos, who is a son of one of the founders and son-in-law of the other, P.-P. has become so advanced that it now has technology of its own to pass on. The company's experience of starting from scratch helped it win a $20 million contract from the Sudanese government to direct the erection...
Catholic Spain was the dominant power in Europe, and the fact that Spain's Philip II was Catherine's son-in-law did not prevent him from being an ominous potential enemy. Between Philip and England's Elizabeth, the most powerful Protestant ruler, Catherine ran an erratic but coolly steered course. Like a skilled chess player who knows that an immediate decision will ruin him, she sought complications, talked away several years seeking a ridiculous marriage between the middle-aged Elizabeth and her degenerate son...
...dirt in this one is really pretty yeasty. Small-town middle-aged Massachusetts family of Life With Father dad, harried mom, newly-wed daughter, boobish son-in-law. Nothing too new there, admittedly, but then mom gets pregnant. And dad gets the gags. Mem: Aren't you excited? happy? [or words to that effect] Doesn't it remind you of a poem? Dad (de-spondently): I shot an arrow into...
...enough professional acumen to have signed up one of the best directors in the business, George Abbott, who for his part has had enough sense to sin up a perfect cast: Paul Ford (dad), Maureen O'Sullivan (mom), and Orson Bean (son-in-law). Do you follow...
...fullest respect for our law and its administration." Indeed, he merely indulged in a common Massachusetts occupation: misusing state construction funds. In 1961, the Metropolitan District Commission awarded a sidewalk repair contract to the B & M Construction Co., an imaginary firm owned by Iannello's wife, daughter and son-in-law. Iannello, acting for the firm, signed all proposals and vouchers connected with the project. On receiving these documents, the State handed...