Word: sister-in-law
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...influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William Butler Yeats, then staying at the attorney's (would you believe?) 30-room Manhattan apartment. Jack has sticky fingers; he usually lightens the cash envelope, and when his boss dies, Morrison and his sister-in-law steal a Yeats manuscript from the apartment, bypassing a stack of paintings by Renoir. Says Emily Morrison: "Anything Irish got to be better." Her son Jimmy has no such flair for literary appreciation. He finds easier pickings as a corrupt union officer, and fathers Owney...
...Before I turned in, I made a quick visit downstairs for refreshment. I returned two hours, and many digital pictures, later. The proprietor, Soso Giorgadze, opened his kitchen to me. I sat with him, his wife, his sister-in-law and a security guard hired to protect the special guest for the night. We exchanged toasts and good wishes for our countries, our children and grandchildren. We made up in hand gestures what we couldn't with language. Plates of cheese, bread and sliced meats came at regular intervals, as did the 35-year-old brandy. (A vintage that...
...those postcard breaks on MacNeil-Lehrer and said she thought we'd be better off if we just forgot the marriage." As the legal wrangling winds down, Martin flies off for no apparent reason to stay at the motel on Florida's Gulf Coast managed by his sister-in-law Dominica. Before long, the two of them are in bed together, with the TV again bearing witness: "About nine we started to make love but then quit in the middle of things and went for a walk. We got hamburgers at a beach dive called the Rubber Shack that specialized...
...teens, Hancock, 42, an unmarried Tampa title examiner, said, "You're not going to pawn off one of your older kids on me." But when a persistent caseworker showed him a photo of Steven, 16, who had been in foster care since he was 6, Hancock and his sister-in-law, who provided moral support during the process, were charmed by a certain family resemblance. "He's one of us," they concluded. When Hancock and Steven met a week later, they developed an instant rapport. Driving home later, Hancock phoned the caseworker to say, "You can close Steven's file...
...Ammari and other budding Saudi politicians had thrown themselves into election campaigns that combined American-style spending with traditional Bedouin hospitality. Their promises included clean government, better services, and less pollution. Al Ammari spent $30,000 from his own pocket, mainly on campaign flyers, with his sister-in-law running his election website. Other candidates parted with hundreds of thousands of dollars, appealing to voters with lavish nightly lamb-and-rice banquets under canvas tents and ubiquitous billboards on Riyadh's modern highways. With political parties banned, the candidates broke roughly into four categories: urbane liberals like al Ammari; Islamic...