Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizes most one oblique Maine compliment: "I don't care for you," said a woman on whom she was calling-and Preacher Henrichsen's heart sank. "No," the woman said, "I don't care for you no more than's if you was my sister...
...with dread). But we can point to the trend. In general it is away from the neo-breezeblown toward the neo-neat. The pigtail of yesteryear is not yet gone but is is fading fast. No longer does the milkmaid arrange her silken tresses into the wonted braids. Her sister in the big city is likewise gripped by the fever of change. On all sides the idols of the past are falling--even the neo-underbrush, once so secure, is threatened. No one knows what the future may hold...
...China next month, paying back the visit to India late last year of a Chinese "goodwill mission" (whose calculated effect, Nehru now evidently perceives, was to stir India's Communist Party into an impressive showing at the polls). Heading the list is Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit, recently envoy to Washington, and before that envoy to Moscow (where, though she arrived with a rosy view of the Russians, she became miffed because Stalin never received her). The Chinese Communists now regard her as so pro-American that, were she not Nehru's sister, they would have vetoed...
...Nurse Sister Kenny, who announced last year that she was suffering from Parkinson's disease and would spend the rest of her life in Australia, told Sydney reporters that she now feels well enough to plan a two-month trip...
...stands it is simply a sordid and weighty story of the racial injustice of South Africa. An excellent story, I hasten to add, but one so poignant that it needs relief of some sort. From the very beginning when the old native pastor sets off to seek his lost sister and son in the hellhole of Johannesburg, and through the whole story of his agonies on learning that his sister is a prostitute and his son a murderer, and also in the collateral story of the sufferings of the English landowner whose son is killed, there is little relief...