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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Clovis, who insisted that his father was guilty. But, he added, "he should be pitied. He's an old man who lived well all his life. He had just a moment of madness." "You're a coward! You're a pig!" screamed his 44-year-old sister Augusta. "You're dishonoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Guilty Party | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Giant at the Bridge | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...Sister! do not rouse my wrath, I'd make you into mutton broth As easily as kill a moth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Juvenile Carroll | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...which the moral is appended: "Never stew your sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Juvenile Carroll | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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