Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist's own aunt was Elinor ("Fanny" was a nickname) Smith, his mother's sister, who lived with the Bellowses when George was a child. Aunt Fanny, who had no children of her own, helped keep the house spick & span, saw to it that young George was always dressed in starched tidiness. She even taught him to whistle while he was still in his baby carriage. In middle age, Aunt Fanny married and moved to California, but in 1920, when she was over 70, she came on a visit to her nephew's home in Woodstock...
State of Emergency. News of their ruler's exile hit the Baganda like a tropical rainstorm. The Kabaka's 300-lb. sister, Princess Zalwanga, collapsed and died; his pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
...from home did the Red P.W.s show emotion. One moon-faced girl in pigtails stared at a photograph of her home street in Seoul, then cried: "I don't want to see it again." A thin-faced P.W. jumped up when the explainers played a message from his sister. "Talk all you want," he shouted, "but don't play that record." Though the recordings were ineffective in getting back the South Koreans, their use set a precedent: the U.N. expects to play such recordings from home to the 22 pro-Communist U.S. prisoners, when they come...
...meals are sparse-spaghetti, vegetables or eggs, watered wine. He always eats alone, waited on by German-born Sister Pasqualina Lehnert, his housekeeper (sometimes jocularly known in Rome as La Papessa), or one of the four other nuns who are assigned to serve in the papal household...
...tugs and water-tossing fireboats hovered around her. A "home-longing pennant"-42 meters long for the 42 months she was abuilding-fluttered from her aftermast. Other liners roared their welcomes to the Swedish American Line's Kungsholm* newest addition to the North Atlantic fleet and a big sister to the Gripsholm...