Word: brother-in-law
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...logically oppose the effects of poverty and the efforts to relieve them. We can not abhor the disease and then fight the cure." He also went out of his way to compliment the "able and inspiring" Sargent Shriver, the antipoverty czar. Besides having to endure indirect criticism from Brother-in-Law Bobby, Shriver has had his budget requests cut sharply, and faces a Republican campaign to disband his Office of Economic Opportunity entirely...
Edward Steichen's portrait of his brother-in-law, Carl Sandburg, clearly illustrates this method of selecting and arranging different images. Steichen printed six different negatives on the same piece of paper and arranged them to show the progressive animation of Sandburg's face breaking into a smile. Such selection can involve choosing one out of 10,000 exposures taken in the span of a second...
...Hawaii. After payment of taxes and other expenses, the remainder of the estate, consisting mainly of 143,110 shares, is to be held in trust in equal amounts for Luce's two sons. Trustees, in all cases, are Henry III, Luce's brother, Sheldon R. Luce, and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice Moore. The trustees are empowered by the will to vote all stock held in trust...
...other lords have just crushed a peasant rebellion and are now squabbling with each other. Rakóssy has his eye on Catharine de Buñez, who is related to the Habsburg emperor, and he gets her; for good measure, he seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants are muttering that Rakóssy must have a pact with Satan. But Rakóssy is directly...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Offering the season's lushest crop of crass, Walter Matthau leers, sneers and swaggers as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who cons his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) into faking an insurance claim in Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores...