Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece of improvisation. While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...
...Countries in 1940, they barred Dutch Physician Elie A. Cohen from practice. Cohen and his family tried to escape to Sweden, but the Gestapo caught them and sent them to Auschwitz. There, the SS gassed Cohen's wife and four-year-old son, his parents, his only sister, and about 50 other relatives. Much of the time Cohen had to do the same manual labor as other prisoners; only part of his three years, in a series of concentration camps was spent working as a doctor. Liberated in May, 1945, he weighed 77 pounds...
...Washington, Russell has lived with his sister, Mrs. J. K. Stacy, and at the Mayflower. In Russell, Ga., his mother still keeps his room in the family home. The Senator likes to point out that he has "enough family to fill the White House and overflow into Blair House across the street." He counts 39 nieces and nephews and ("at the last count; all the returns are not in yet") eleven grandnieces and grandnephews...
...Guiding Light is the story of Meta and Joe Roberts, whose marriage is breaking up. Meta announces that she is going to New York to visit her sister Trudy, but Meta's real reason for the trip is to see Dr. Bruce Banning. Trudy's husband Clyde, who has Meta pegged, is heard to mutter: "No matter where she is or whose life she touches, it means trouble...
...Sister is Ruth Wayne, who refuses to accept defeat, even though her world is crumbling around her. Old Friend Dr. Reed Bannister, visiting the Waynes with his wife Valerie, confesses to Valerie that he once loved Ruth, something Valerie had suspected all along. What Ruth doesn't know: Ruth's brother Neddie, who has his own marital troubles, is madly infatuated with Valerie. Ruth's husband John is an invalid. Is his illness caused by a guilt feeling? Would psychiatry help...