Word: brother-in-law
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...regular weekend on Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
...like Holden, an astonishing degree of life, a stunning and detailed air of presence. So real are the Glasses in fact (an American student in Venice remembers that some one called him excitedly from a bar one night to say that he had just met Seymour Glass's brother-in-law) that readers feel sure that the stories must be autobiographical. But Salinger has done his superhuman best to keep that matter dark...
...eventually meandered through the French doors leading to President Kennedy's office. The girls were bright in their flowered summer dresses, the men were turned out in their Sunday best, and everyone was smiling and chatting amiably -sometimes in Swahili and Twi. Inside, the President and his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, looked for all the world like fathers of the bride as they greeted each of the young guests. The occasion was a farewell party for 80 young volunteers (average age: 25) bound for teaching and road-building jobs in Ghana and Tanganyika. They had just completed...
...south, in Goulart's home fief of Rio Grande do Sul, Governor Leonel Brizzola was calling the gauchos to arms on Goulart's behalf. Brizzola, who is Brazil's most rabidly anti-Yankee governor and Goulart's brother-in-law, blocked the harbor in Porto Alegre, barricaded the streets, and began recruiting rawhide-tough cowboys into "Committees of Democratic Resistance." He called up the state militia, mobilized police, had trenches dug, surrounded his palace with barbed wire and put machine guns on the roof. But more important than all these precautions, he won the solid support...
...force jets started buzzing the highways), then raced through the darkness to board a Varig Airlines Caravelle at Montevideo Airport. The jet slid across the border with lights doused as Jango washed down cold cuts with red wine by candlelight. Still in darkness, the plane set down in Brother-in-Law Brizzola's Porto Alegre stronghold. Brizzola introduced him as "chief of the armed forces and leader of all Brazilians," then was drowned out by ten minutes of nonstop cheering and shouts of "Jango! Jango!" from 35,000 frenzied spectators. Home was the President-though still in name only...