Word: sister-in-law
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...Liberia has long looked upon the U.S. as a kind of godfather. Its flag is a single-starred version of the Stars and Stripes, its capital is named after James Monroe, and many residents speak English, often with a trace of a Southern twang. Mamadou Bah, 53, whose sister-in-law, nephew and two brothers were killed by a mortar attack on the makeshift refugee camp outside the U.S. embassy, is angry that the Americans have not yet come to help. But if they do, he says, "everybody will be so proud of them...
...wanted Conor to look sharp at this wedding--not for his sake, of course, but for mine. I knew my sister-in-law would be on top of things, that her two boys would turn up lint free, with pants creased. I couldn't let her show me up. Conor had to look good so that I would look good...
...Test results indicated the man, who suffered from kidney disease, had the flu not pneumonia. He was discharged. In fact, he had SARS, and health officials now think that when he later visited family in the Amoy Gardens apartment complex, he passed the disease to his brother and sister-in-law?sparking a virulent outbreak among residents. Some 250 people in the apartment complex came down with SARS, giving the disease its first major beachhead in the general population...
...drip paintings. For months he had flung lashing tangles of color onto canvases laid across the floor. Literally slapdash, yet as intricately woven as a Persian rug, his pictures pointed the way to the future--or would if anyone noticed. So Pollock sat up late with his sister-in-law. To comfort him, she read his palm. He was going to be a very famous painter, she promised...
...husband’s arrest from their family for 10 days—and ended up defending Yang’s trip to her sister-in-law when she asked how Fu could have let Yang...