Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a good deal more than a truce on the banana front was needed to take the heat off. Calling a press conference, the Foreign Minister dealt out reassurances in all directions. No more munitions ships were on the way, he said. "Guatemala does not menace anyone, especially our sister republics. Our army will never serve as an instrument of aggression." The Guatemalans pulled back troops from the Honduran border and offered the astonished Hondurans, who had just recalled their ambassador, a mutual-assistance and nonaggression pact...
...delighted. "Well, why don't you?" he shot back. And with that he picked up three-year-old Lynda and kissed her. Then, beaming, he turned to greet Lynda's sister and brothers, her mother and her father, Willard Widerberg, 34, a seventh-grade teacher from De Kalb, Ill., who had just been named "Teacher of the Year" by the U.S. Office of Education and McCall's magazine...
When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at Khartoum in 1885, Queen Victoria "had difficulty in speaking." "How shall I ... express what I feel? . . . grief inexpressible!" she wrote the hero's sister. "Indeed, it has made me ill! My heart bleeds. . ." At the time-and for decades afterwards-Poet Arthur Rimbaud's brusquer comment, "Gordon est un idiot," represented the opinion of none but Poet Arthur Rimbaud...
...stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace. At the camera distance of one generation, 19-year-old Brace is the sister of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley-a victim of the new conformism, revolt for revolt's sake. She says profane and obscene things just to shock people, and makes the relatively naive kisses of Fitzgerald...
...royal favor like a gaudy shuttle -though Charles was too indulgent to fuss when Buckingham ran his sword through the Earl of Shrewsbury, husband of Buckingham's mistress. "I am sorry to find that cuckolds in France grow so troublesome," Charles wrote to his sister, the Duchess of Orleans, shortly after. "They have been inconvenient in all countries this last year...