Chris had a great uncle, not related to me, who was part of a naval gun crew on a WWII merchant ship.
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It was beginning to sound as if a live Uncle Enos would be even more difficult to get along with than a whole houseful of ghosts, even regular ghosts of the misty-sheet variety.
It's as if we've all spent years on the town with a bon vivant uncle buying us steaks and cigars and driving around in a Rolls-Royce Phantom, and suddenly the bon vivant uncle pulls over to the side of the road, starts freaking about gas prices, and hands you fare for the bus.
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Relying on commercial airlines these days is a lot like relying on a poor uncle.
On Twitter, Stephen MacDonald, who is not yet a father but is a proud uncle, said the findings seem reasonable.
We had a young uncle who played less carefully than my father.
There was a comedic tangle on Long Island, in which Suter got into a post-race fight with a rival and a furious uncle.
Tells of a highlander whose uncle was killed in a battle against a neighboring clan and to whom responsibility for arranging revenge fell.
Whether the biofuels industry can scale up to provide the 8 million barrels the Navy needs annually at a price Uncle Sam can afford is the big unknown.
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If it wants to be South America's friendly giant, rather than a southern Uncle Sam, Brazil might ponder imitating Germany's role in Europe, and subsume its narrow national sovereignty in pursuit of the greater goal of unity.
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Back in June the Las Vegas Review Journal reported on a 1996 incident in which Berkley, then working for the Sands Hotel, advised her boss to give a job to the uncle of a Clark County commissioner in order to win the official's support for a new hotel project.
The last owner was a little old uncle from Washington who did a fair amount of work on her.
More than one-third were under the age of 18, like Mohammed Alam, a ten-year-old orphan, who left Bihar with his aunt and uncle a month ago.
If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.
Chiesa said investigators believe Spyropoulos was motived by greed and wanted to steal a large amount of cash that his uncle kept in a safe.
Allegedly, on November 11, 2011, Chaisson submitted a new life insurance application for his uncle, but the underwriter (citing the prior rejection ) required that the uncle submit to a telephonic medical history interview.
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In the 2004-dated letter he said he had been raped as a child by his uncle and was also abused by his parents, a law enforcement source told the US network.
Dave Blackwell, who was six when the floods came, remembered a story his uncle told him.
Did you know that if you feel you are not paying enough tax you can simply send a check to Uncle Sam?
As 2008 draws to a close, Uncle Sam is trying to alleviate that problem while shelling out cash to keep the industry afloat.
And the dismal results were exactly what economists predicted: In the months before the credit expired, buyers scrambled to get a deal from Uncle Sam.
They said they were relieved to finally be able to pay their respects to a brother and uncle who went missing from Cleethorpes in September 1989.
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There was some controversy surrounding his selection to succeed Allan Rogers, but he set about burnishing his Welsh roots: a great-uncle captained the Welsh rugby team.
But by creating this new version, including new introductions and additional new artwork, Gipps hopes to show that there is a demand for Uncle and his adventures.
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We are up to about 300 patients (with a big infusion when a local TV network did a story on my practice) and have enough money to pay bills without a visit from uncle bouncy.
Moody's, the credit-rating agency, got publicity--for once, not negative--in January when it warned that the U.S. government may lose its triple-A rating within a decade if Uncle Sam doesn't do something drastic about the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
In mid-June, as the White House was drafting the President's Middle East policy speech, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met with Bush and handed him a letter from his uncle Abdullah urging the U.S. to promote a "clear vision" in the speech, including geographical boundaries and a timetable for Palestinian statehood.
Ten percent of a million dollars is a hundred grand to Uncle Sam, while 10 percent of ten grand is just a thousand bucks.
Then came a 1999 class action brought in Los Angeles by Martin Marootian, 85, whose uncle was a policyholder killed in 1915.
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