Word: brother-in-law
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...like to make an introduction," she said. "You'll like him. My former brother-in-law." "He's been divorced two years," Huldie said..."He's not fresh from anyone...Do you understand the significance of that...
...children race through the garden to the swimming pool. Most of the guests are middle-aged relatives. They talk little of politics but much of their kin who have left for the U.S. There is only a brief flare-up of political emotion as a woman berates her brother-in-law for the behavior of his son, who is a high-ranking member of the Sandinista Party. The man listens to the tirade with his head down. Finally, he lifts his eyes and declares, "My son is not a Communist. I'm convinced that...
...conspiracy to commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving as an Army technician at Los Alamos, N. Mex., he had given Julius rough sketches of the implosion device used to trigger the atomic bomb...
...police. In May 1979, because I had refused to write a letter disavowing the contents of my books and denouncing those who had published my poetry or who had talked of my situation abroad, my family was refused an exit visa to leave the country and my brother-in-law lost his job. My friends and relatives were forbidden to visit my house...
...acquitted and became Prime Minister in 1979. His government, however, was troubled by successive scandals. Last February, Haughey's campaign manager was charged with voting twice in the general election. He was acquitted, but the case is being reexamined. Then in the summer Doherty's brother-in-law, a police officer, was charged with assaulting a visitor from Ulster. Charges were dropped when the main prosecution witness did not appear in court; he had been arrested by police in Northern Ireland and was released only when the case was over. Finally, in August, Haughey's Attorney General...