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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matters of civil rights, Britain is as jealous of its virtue as a girl with a fallen sister; the fallen sister, Britons make clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Belated Discovery | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...cold, red tomb, watching the Red Square parades pass by, one mustachioed figure was always seen quite close to Stalin. He was First Deputy Premier Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, onetime tanner's apprentice who became an able and ruthless administrator. Stalin was rumored to have married Kaganovich's sister Roza, though this has never been established as fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down, but Still Breathing | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Christoph Probst, a student and anti-Nazi, wrote to his mother: "I thank you for having given me life," and to his sister: "I never knew that dying is so easy . . I die without any feeling of hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty-Seven Martyrs | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...Venice, Calif., charged with the fatal shooting of his wife, Joseph Hibdon pleaded with police: "But I meant to shoot my sister, not my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...meaningless world that none ever sought. A not uncommon game among Paris intellectuals consists in trying to answer the question: How did Simone get that way? Her Parisian parents were Roman Catholics, her father a bookish lawyer, her mother a reserved middle-class lady. Simone and her younger sister Hélène went to a good Catholic school, Cours Désir, where they studied hard and did well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Knows? | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

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