Word: sister-in-law
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...distant. More immediate was the prospect of an interview with President Ngo Dinh Diem, which meant that you had to visit the bathroom beforehand because he sometimes kept you six straight hours. The thing was to be Diem's weekend guest at Cap St-Jacques, where his sister-in-law, the lissome Mme. Nhu, led giggling moonlight hunts for crustaceans to put in Sunday's bouillabaisse...
...exactly the scrambled eggs that Giscard had flippantly said would be sufficient when he first announced the plan. Well no, Mme. Cucchiarini conceded afterwards. But, she added, "it's not every night that the President comes to dinner." She insisted that she, her sister and sister-in-law had prepared all the food themselves, except for the bass, which came from a deli around the corner...
...post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman, 56, of Maryland, the first woman president of the National Association of Counties; Democrat Martha Keys, 44, of Kansas, McGovern campaign coordinator for Kansas in 1972 and sister-in-law of Colorado Senator-elect Gary Hart; and Republican Virginia Smith, 63, of Nebraska, a member of the board of the American Farm Bureau...
...sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene and ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several of his nephews and nieces greeted them with hot soup and warm clothes. Said an impressed David Lamkin, "Well, Mr. Kennedy, how often do you rescue people from the ocean?" Replied Ted, "Not very often." Later in the day Randi and Carol went to the Kennedy compound...
...must also stand against the criminal world as he wages a bloody vendetta against the Mob that had his brother killed. He gets to them by busting up some of their more successful undertakings (a casino, a bookie parlor) and turning the profits over to his sister-in-law. He himself waits for a clear shot at Mr. Big, a long and weary wait...