Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently abandoning political ambition, Shishekly emigated to Brazil in 1958, bought a small rice farm near the town of Ceres, and married a second wife, Thérèse, a Frenchwoman who bore him a daughter. Life in Ceres was quiet. Shishekly kept clear of politics, gave only a few reluctant interviews to the press, paid his debts promptly, and was respected by his neighbors, some of whom still called him "President...
...cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts not to go home again. He learns that the bar association has initiated measures to have him disbarred. He seizes a moment of sweaty oblivion with the switchboard operator...
...lives with her husband, Set and Costume Designer Tony Walton, and two-year-old daughter in a rented Spanish villa with a warm-water pool in Coldwater Canyon. She doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never...
...Malinda, "the youngest daughter shall be returned to the father," the judge directed. "The evidence overwhelmingly establishes that all four children should be kept together as a unit. This is where their great strength lies, and it would be a mistake of the first magnitude to separate any one of them from the others...
Halfway a Bastard. In all externals, Sartre had an uneventful, thoroughly coddled childhood. His father died two years after his birth in 1905, so his young mother moved back with her parents. There, while she faded back into the role of a dutiful daughter, the child grew up as the darling of all, particularly his grandfather, Charles Schweitzer,* a white-bearded Old Testament patriarch who tyrannized his own children and indulged his grandson...