Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting in emergency session, the Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Synod cabled appeals to churches throughout the world, including its "sister church of Russia," which it called on to "display its traditionally strong protection, and use every power and influence" to end Makarios' exile. A general strike paralyzed Cyprus, while British paratroopers broke up small demonstrations with tear...
...Despite 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...
...Variety, totting up the creative blood transfusions that TV has given its sister arts, the movies and theater, found that 38 TV dramas have been sold to Hollywood and seven optioned to Broadway. Two of the dramas (Paddy Chayefsky's The Middle of the Night and N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker) are scheduled to make a clean sweep by appearing in all three places...
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...
After graduating from the College in 1923, Oenslager joined the Provincetown Players and the Greenwich Theatre group. Since 1925, he has designed over 180 productions for the New York theatre, including operas, ballets, musicals and dramas. Among his most famous works are: "Girl Crazy," "Born Yesterday," and "My Sister Eileen." Oenslager is a noted advocate of the proposed Harvard theatre...