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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the bedroom, and my little sister Catherine, six years old, began screaming. Robert was rolling on the floor and trying to get under the bed, and I shot him again. [Catherine] was screaming too much, so I shot her. I was just mad or something. I went back to the kitchen and shot [mother] again. I went back to the bedroom. My brother was moving a little. I reached over the bed and shot him again. I don't know how many times I shot my sister. I dragged my mother into a bedroom and closed the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Night of the Game | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...nothing against my brother and sister. They were my buddies. I don't have to go to the funerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Night of the Game | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...High & Mighty. When King George's only sister, the Princess Royal, distracted at the news of her brother's death, had rushed into her mother's apartment, hair askew, 84-year-old Queen Mary had told her: "Please do your hair properly when you come before the Queen." More than anyone, perhaps, Queen Mary was conscious of the great destiny that had come to her granddaughter, the princess whom she had so often reproved and scolded in the past. When Elizabeth entered Clarence House, Queen Mary was waiting, perfectly prepared, to curtsy before her. The Queen talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elizabeth II | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Winthrop's combined 'A' and 'B' basketball squads stopped the previously undefeated Air R.O.T.C. last night, winning in overtime, 35 to 30. The rough Puritan hockey team had an easier time of it yesterday morning, smashing weak-sister Adams, 10 to 0, as Moe Baldwin scored four goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritan Quintet Tops Air ROTC Team, 35-30 | 2/15/1952 | See Source »

Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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