Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest, is still a paper dream tabled by legislative inertia. The Feather went berserk. It swept madly to its confluence with the Yuba River in the peach country just southwest of Marysville (pop. 12,500) and Yuba City (pop. 8,000). Advised to flee across the river to their sister town, the people of Marysville quickly found themselves scrambling for their lives in Yuba City, where the flood demolished levees while dikes held fast in Marysville...
Sargent resolved to put the English Channel between himself and his detractors. He took an ornate studio on London's Tite Street, later installed his wid owed mother and unmarried sister in a flat around the corner. To be "done by Sargent" became the posh thing; celebrities flocked to his studio. But instead of immortalizing, he rather paralyzed most of them, turning them into clotheshorses, handsome or beautiful as the case might be. having elegant gestures and bored, sleepy expressions...
...number of Negro players is uniformly very small, and 2) that there have been no incidents . . . We believe we will have the support of the great majority of our people as we endeavor to meet this new situation with the same calmness and levelheadedness which many of our sister cities of the South have already shown...
...Monaco was spiritually run down," he said recently. That was putting it mildly. Prince Rainier was often in the company of Gisele Pascal, a French actress. A mayor of Monte Carlo had married a former Sister of Charity who had nursed him in the hospital. The clergy were quarreling among themselves. The bishop of Monaco, a Frenchman, did not get along with his Italian priests...
...broke my bat on Johnny's head, Somebody snitched on me I hid a frog in sister's bed, Somebody snitched...