Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moon. Though the party is supreme in Russia, a surprising degree of independence is allowed the academy in scientific matters. With notably few exceptions-mostly in nonscientific fields -the academy elects its members on the basis of merit. It not only directs the policies of the twelve "sister academies" of the various republics, it runs at least 126 research institutes, and to a large extent governs the work of more than 200,000 scientists and technicians. Its institutes probe into everything from weather control and ionospheric explorations above the Antarctic icecap to elaborate schemes for landing electronic-guided tanks...
...magistracy court, Wat protested that he had never seen or heard of the woman, Chan Kam, 53, who was suing him for maintenance and claiming they had been married for 26 years. The woman admitted that she had never before laid eyes on Wat. But Wat's sister-in-law, Yip Wan-tai, testified that before Wat's mother died in 1932, the mother had instructed her to marry Wat to Chan, then 28. The ceremony was duly carried out: the bride wore red, and Wat was represented, said Yip, by a rooster. No one ever told...
Under Chinese law and customs, which are binding in Hong Kong courts, proxy weddings are legal, and senior relatives may sponsor them. But under cross-examination last week, sister-in-law Yip admitted that she had not really used a rooster as Wat's proxy. Yip explained that she feared that the rooster would die before Wat returned-certainly an ill omen for Wat's marital bliss with Chan. Therefore Wat had been represented at the ceremony by a more durable cakebox...
...fight in France) in World War I, he was invalided home with an ankle injury, made his stage debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling...
Getting the Goods. Just before going to Notre Dame to crown himself Emperor, he could not resist dragging his older brother to a looking glass, gloating, "Joseph, if our father could see us!" In the field he dressed plainly, had to be told by his sister to wear, suspenders because "your breeches always seem to be on the point of falling down." Léger, his tailor, reported indignantly turning down the Emperor's request to patch a pair of hunting breeches. And though Napoleon ennobled all his brothers, behind the scenes he ranted like any Corsican bourgeois, broke...