Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American's FJ-2 "Fury," another swept-wing jet fighter capable of near sonic speeds. An older sister, the FJ-1, first flown in 1946, was taken over by the Air Force, and became the F-86 Sabre jet of Korean fame...
...best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine-I love them all." Her saddest job: writing home to the families of men killed in combat...
...child, she toured the South in "a kind of package show" with her mother (Ruby Dandridge of the Beulah and Judy Canova radio shows), sometimes singing hymns and "sweet songs," such as The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, in churches. At 16, she was singing with her sister in Jimmie Lunceford's band at Manhattan's Cotton Club, but nobody paid much attention. In 1942, she got married; now divorced, she has a daughter, Harolyn...
Love Instead of Latin. Sister Clothilde was 28 and had never been kissed, but she was beautiful and well-made. The boy Denis, going on 14, met her when he ran an errand to the local hospital. He felt glowingly attracted to the smiling sister and invented excuses to see her again. Soon the thought of the handsome Denis was invading Sister Clothilde's prayers. She tried to reassure herself: "I love him as a son. There is nothing else. I love him as a mother loves her son." But she had misunderstood her feelings as completely as Denis...
...Tower Court resident, the brunette had signed out of her dormitory at 8:40 p.m. Monday, to visit her sister, a graduate student at Yale...