Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of its gentle leader, the search began for a successor. At week's end, as India's leading politicians huddled in one meeting after another, it seemed likely that the choice would fall on a candidate with a magical legacy in Indian politics: Indira Gandhi, 48, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru...
...only fitting. Regal, imperious, and acid-tongued, Indira is a true daughter of the Indian revolution. As a child, she watched her parents hauled off repeatedly to jail by India's British rulers, whiled away her loneliness by teaching her dolls to emulate Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience. "All my games were political," she recalls. Defying her father, she married an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), later was jailed with him for 13 months on charges of subversion. After bearing two sons, she left her husband in 1947 and returned...
...having Snoop's doghouse burn down. Now the idea doesn't seem so comic-nor does Schulz's nickname, "Sparky." Last week his one-story studio in Sebastqpol, Calif., caught fire and burned to the ground. There were almost some roasted Peanuts, but Schulz's daughter Meredith raced in and saved a batch of strips he'd drawn for February. Snoopy is-whew!-safe...
...November night in 1959 two ex-convicts named Perry Smith and Richard Hickock entered the Holcomb, Kans., home of Herbert Clutter, a well-to-do wheat farmer, and killed everyone in it: Clutter, his wife, his 16-year-old daughter and his 15-year-old son. Murder was only incidental to the design, which was theft. But murder was also essential: the visitors intended to leave no witnesses. Within two months the killers, who had collected a tabletop radio, binoculars, and less than $50 in cash from their victims, were captured and condemned to death. Last April, after five years...
...play, Clytemnestra is not depicted as the traditional villainess but, according to Alfred, as "a good woman who, in a fit of rage over the death of her daughter, strikes Agamemnon, whom she blames for the loss...