Word: brother-in-law
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...room house in the suburb of Hillsborough. At Berkeley, she was partly supported with $300 a month from a trust fund and credit cards in her father's name. Patty had never demonstrated much interest in politics. Those who know her describe her as reserved and strongwilled. Says Brother-in-Law Jay Bosworth: "I wouldn't characterize her as naive, or as exceptionally worldly. But she was very independent...
...There isn't anything as an alternate site that's satisfactory," Steven Smith, head of the developing firm and brother-in-law to the late President John F. Kennedy '40, said yesterday...
...which during the Second World War succeeded in pilfering what was then referred to as "the secret of the atomic bomb." They were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The case turned on two key witnesses. One was David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother, who cooperated with the government and sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in return for a reduced sentence. The other was Harry Gold, a self-confessed spy who also traded his testimony for a lighter punishment. After two years of appeals, the Supreme Court voted by a six-to-three margin...
WOOD DEMON. This seldom produced Chekhov play is known in theatrical texts chiefly as an early version of Uncle Vanya. The familiar characters are here: the young doctor obsessed by forest conservation; the fractious old scholar and his bored young wife; Daughter Sonia and Brother-in-Law George (later called Vanya), who are remnants of his life with his dead first wife. There are five more major characters in this version who are elided or eliminated when Chekhov created a masterpiece out of the same material...
...very effectively, at that. The voters wait patiently for him for three or four hours, and when their turns come, they usually start out by saying "I'm so-and-so's brother-in-law." Or "I'm this fellow's grandson." Or "I'm somebody's nephew." Listening and remembering, Tip O'Neill can usually tie them into the intricate web of friendships and contacts he has built up over the years. This solid political base is the source he will need for the paramount event of his political life: the drive...