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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kazan and Lee (Men in White) Strasberg, both of whom worked with the old Group Theater and became two of the ablest craftsmen to influence the U.S. stage. Television jobs and a few good on-and off-Broadway roles helped Kim along. Finally, as the homely, dry-tongued adolescent sister in Picnic (TIME, March 2, 1953), she won both the New York Drama Critics' and Donaldson awards as the year's best supporting actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Smear Me If You Can." With obvious pain, Clifford Case added that "Adelaide and I believe there are some other things you should know." Then he revealed the little stain from which the big smear had grown. About a year ago his sister was hospitalized with a severe nervous disorder. When her illness was acute, she said she was concerned because she once belonged to a left-wing study club. Case did everything he could to check her disconnected story, even asked the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover for help. Finally, Case concluded there was nothing to the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back in the Gutter | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...control is still unsure. But the confidence of the heart-which shows in the sudden warm going-under-now look in the eyes-is impressive. Everything she does is a little overdone, but it is a pleasure to see such things done at all. Everybody's little sister, it would seem, has grown out of her braids and into a tiara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Kaye), who since the war have made a big success in show business, come to his rescue. They throw a benefit at the inn, and call on all the old man's old soldiers to help out. Meanwhile, they are able to do a good turn for a sister act (Rosemary Cloonev and Vera-Ellen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Holy Wars | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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