Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson is a weak sister. Truman is no international bargainer. We don't have much confidence in U.N. in this kind of a situation. (Said another member from Texas: "I can't conceive of a worse crisis...
Standing by in the delivery room at this time was Sister Mary Adele, in charge of Mercy Hospital's obstetrical department. She asked to see the patient's tubes. She was told that they were all closed up. The sister asked Stephens whether he would admit that he had tied them. He did. She told him that he would have to untie them...
Again Dr. Stephens was in a dilemma. He felt that he could not defy the sister. He decided it would be quickest, and least dangerous for the patient, to reopen the peritoneum and untie the tubes. That is what...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...
...method of matching the Houses and College tackle squads is a little more complicated, and leaves three Colleges up the creek. This results from the fact that, except for the champions, a House team plays its corresponding "sister College." And since there are seven Houses and ten Colleges, three of the latter--Branford, Silliman, and Trumbull--do not get to play Harvard regularly Neale says, "They don't like it, but there is nothing...