Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soul shall enjoy the fulfillment of all her desire!" St. John the Evangelist was also eager to leave: "Thou hast invited me to Thy table, Lord; and behold I come, thanking Thee for having invited me, for Thou knowest that I have desired it with all my heart." "Welcome, Sister Death," said St. Francis of Assisi...
Sophomores Dave Whitman and Glenn Sister captured the 440 free style, and John Lind and Jack Dinsmoor placed...
...muscular dystropny-a progressive wasting away of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known. She had gradually become disabled, spent her last two months in San Joaquin General Hospital. When Vivian the first ominous stiffening in her ankles, followed by weakness and loss of balance, one sister had already died. She lived to see another sister and a brother die of complaints suggesting muscular dystrophy, which tends to sweep through whole families. A third sister had been in the hospital for two years; two others are disabled but still at home...
...mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...best performance, and the best comic part in the whole play, belongs to George Turner, the stuffed shorted, Edwardian butler. Turner's carefully measured pace and diction add a rare ludicrosity to the otherwise shabby proceedings. Joan Wet more, as the young man's sister, brings a facile smugness to some of the play's better lines...