Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mohammed Mossadegh came to power eleven years later, he first drove out the British, then turned his attention to the next obstacle in his way, the young Shah. First, he sent the Shah's sister and mother into exile. The departing Queen Mother warned her son: "Today this man banishes your sister and me. Tomorrow he will turn on you." A few months later Mossadegh did; he demanded that the Shah surrender control of the army. This once, the Shah stood firm. He dismissed Mossadegh and appointed a new Premier in his place, but after three days...
...second wife. The first, Egyptian Princess Fawzia, was Farouk's sister; he divorced her in 1948 for failure to bear...
...Washington last week a man selling opera glasses yelled: "It's up to the old lady, folks! Come and get 'em so you can see her run." The old lady is a fin-tailed, mahogany-plywood motorboat called Slo-Mo-Shun IV, slightly faster than her younger sister, Slo-Mo-Shun V, and holder of the world straightaway speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. With Slo-Mo V disabled by a pre-race accident last week, Slo-Mo IV had to hold off five Detroit challengers for speedboating's most prized trophy, the Gold Cup, won last year...
There is a certain ambivalence to the struggle. Shirley concedes that her father "taught me to waltz without hopping," and remembers him as a handsome man who looked like William Powell. Relatives have tried, without success, to bring Shirley and her father together. Her younger sister Jean, who sees their father infrequently, says: "My father is stiff and proud, and will never give in. Shirley will never give in either." Shirley's stepmother. Rita Ford, cries despairingly: "If they could only understand how much alike they are! They both have the same dispositions ; they're both a bundle...
...Egyptian port of Alexandria, a band struck up the national anthem, and Egypt's flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic...