Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary in power. On the rostrum the Chinese Reds were joined by a star-studded delegation from other parts of the Communist empire, headed by Nikita Khrushchev, No. 2 man in Russia. Also present were Boleslaw Bierut, the Polish Communist chief, Kim II Sung, and eight other delegations from sister "people's democracies." "Everybody," cried Radio Peking, "can see the greatness of our country...
...whose seven marriages (among his ex-wives: Novelist Kathleen Winsor, Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) all started out well, seemed to be right back where he began. His current bride (No. 7). Actress Doris Dowling, gathered up their 13-month-old son Jonathan and moved in with her sister...
...river that flows by it, which no one in the family bothers to do anything about. The family's personal relations stand also in need of attention. Willie's father (Ed Begley) blusters from not knowing how to deal with people; his good-looking married sister is too cheaply self-centered to want even a family of her own; his sweet, bumbling mother goes around wearing rose-colored blinkers. Only his crippled older brother (John Kerr) has feeling enough for the kid to help him build a crude retaining wall; but it crumbles with the first storm...
...rain, living on no more than a slim rice ration and an occasional frog caught in the paddyfields. They moved stealthily in and out of the villages, spotting Viet Minh spies, harassing the enemy by night and playing the part of noncombatant peasants by day. In one sector the sister of a priest led a group of women in dark brown cotton uniforms, their large pockets always containing a few hand grenades...
...them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first time; Lilli, fair and delicate ("probably the only virgin . . . in Berlin," observed sister Ursula), was an exquisite little ballet dancer with eyes "almost violet blue...