Word: sister-in-law
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...into gold mining, cattle ranching, real estate, becoming so rich (estimates run all the way up to $40 million) that his third wife last year won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement; of knife wounds in the abdomen (police booked Bartholomae's brother's Spanish-born sister-in-law on suspicion of murder); in the kitchen of his $500,000 mansion at Newport Beach, Calif...
...toys to the children of Puerto Vallarta. But most of the day Burton spent away from the public eye, in the bosom of his new family: Elizabeth's forever proud and beaming mother, and her father (whose usual expression is uncertainty), and her brother, and her sister-in-law, and her two little boys by Michael Wilding, and her little girl by Mike Todd, and the little German girl she adopted two years ago, and Taffy, her little yipping Sealyham...
...involvements, but it was perfectly plain that the reduction of U.S. aid to Diem and Washington's public disapproval of his repressive measures against the Buddhists set the scene for the coup (see THE NATION). As the news from Saigon unfolded, it was Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, who provided a bitter chorus from Los Angeles, where she was winding up her U.S. tour. Said she: "There can be no coup without American incitement or backing." This time, even her severest critics, including the Moscow press, agreed with...
...regime, as well as the organizer of its secret police. Brother Can supplied muscle, running central Viet Nam like a warlord. Brother Thuc, Archbishop of Hué, offered spiritual guidance, undismayed by occasional, barely concealed reproofs from the Vatican. To the band of brothers was added the indomitable sister-in-law, Mme. Nhu, whose dedicated feminism resulted in a series of laws that made adultery a prison offense, outlawed polygamy, prostitution, contraceptives, abortion and taxi dancing...
...whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night. He has no discernible trade and lives on the dole as if he had earned it. He is selfish, improvident, coarse, arrogant and bullying. "Don't stand out there in the cold, lass," he says to his sister-in-law, come to pay a visit. "Buzz off." His name is Andy Capp, and he is the newest folk hero of the comic strips...