Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most precious, and most damning, piece of information came in 1945 from Ethel's younger brother David Greenglass, then employed as a machinist in the supersecret atomic bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. Ethel had used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining...
...small (pop. 450), rugged Aeolian islands west of the toe of Italy. In a melodramatic manner, it tells the highly melodramatic story of a prostitute (Anna Magnani) banished by the Naples police to her native island after an absence of 18 years. There she finds her innocent young sister (Geraldine Brooks) in danger of being seduced by an unscrupulous diver (Rossano Brazzi). In the end, the prostitute kills the diver and dies in a volcanic eruption...
...other point: I was brought up under the belief that this precious constitutional protection applied so that no one need incriminate or degrade himself. The word "degrade" has evaporated into limbo, although it still survives in our sister culture in Great Britain. As the law now stands, despite some wonderful writing by judges in the United States Supreme Court over the decades, if any person is asked by a committee--"did you commit embezzlement or sodomy or any other anti-social act thirty years ago, there is no honest constitutional legal excuse for not making answer. The constitutional protection would...
Last week a third Little Sister joined the others at La Bomba: 24-year-old Marie Amélie Arizmendi, a French Basque. The warm weather had come at last, and the Order of the Little Sisters of Jesus seemed securely established in Spain. Only one small disappointment flawed Sister Marie Amélie's arrival. Don Angel refused for the second time to dedicate their little chapel...
...first time, it was because the roof leaked. This time, Don Angel said, it was because the chapel could not be securely shut. But the sisters and their neighbors were working hard last week to put up strong doors and a stout lock, and Sister Marie Aline bubbled with optimism. "We will end up by having such a nice little chapel that Father Angel will be happy to come and say Mass in it," she said. "We can do good work here...