Word: sister-in-law
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...cheered. The French government still spends money on Vietnamese agriculture and the maintenance of 300 teachers in free French schools. The Cercle Sportif, once snootily for Europeans only, took in Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive First Lady of Viet Nam (she is the bachelor President's sister-in-law...
France's 19th century Impressionist Painter Berthe Morisot (sister-in-law of Edouard Manet) had little or nothing to do with Ireland's ages-long fight for freedom. She was merely one of many painters whose works were fancied by the wealthy Dublin connoisseur and art dealer, Sir Hugh Lane. But Ireland's grievances against Great Britain are many, and not the least of them concern the French impressionist pictures that once belonged to Sir Hugh...
...bowels, or, as he called them, his Konrad). He worked prodigiously for nine months of the year, received patients from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with only an hour out for lunch, took little longer over dinner with his family (wife, three sons, three daughters and sister-in-law Minna Bernays*) before burying himself in the task of assembling data and writing down his theories. He regularly worked until...
...highhanded campaign regulations that hobbled any organized opposition to Diem, the election was no mere formality. There were many independent candidates in the running. Voters indicated Diem's basic popularity by voting heavily for openly pro-government candidates of whatever party, including Diem's brother and sister-in-law and four of his Cabinet ministers...
Tilling another man's land, Cam finds his own roots. But he loses his restless heart to the boss's pretty young sister-in-law Millie. She is plagued by the memory of a previous affair, Cam by the bitter knowledge that he sits too far down the farmer's table to reach for Millie's hand. Their romance is not so much star-crossed as double-crossed, and Cam has to call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival...