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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged millionaire ever had more solicitous relatives than cantankerous Texan James Sexton, who controlled 378 oil wells and owned 9,000 acres in cattle ranches. The relatives-a sister and four nieces-felt entitled to be watchful, for at 70, James Sexton was acting kind of ornery. That was four years ago, when he was staying at the Cleburne rest home operated by Mrs. Agnes Kirk, then 36. There, one day, he showed his appreciation to Mrs. Kirk by handing her a check for $100,000, showed his affection for her, as well, by getting muscularly amorous. Mrs. Kirk fended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Virtue's Reward | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...left a dollar-packed will. To his favorite Cleburne restaurant owner, Bessie Richardson (specialty: black-eyed peas), he left $1,000, and to his attorney he willed $10,000. The rest of his estate went to his relatives and an old friend: $100 apiece to his nieces and sister, $5,000,000 or so to Agnes Kirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Virtue's Reward | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...defiance against the government of Chamoun and his 75-year-old, waterpipe-smoking Premier, Sami Solh. "O Chamoun, Lebanon must join the Arab Union!" chanted thousands of Lebanese last week in Damascus, as Nasser beamed down from his balcony. Replied Nasser: "As I see my brothers from sister Lebanon standing side by side with their brothers from the region of Syria and the region of Egypt, I feel I am witnessing the return of matters to their natural course. The artificial boundaries that have been put up between Arab countries by the imperialists cannot estrange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Nearness of Nasser | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...England] do as we choose and we just don't take it bloody lying down. Your shame is on your own head, and I don't know what we're trying to sell. I didn't bother to look up what your sister has done or who your father was. I don't even know if you had a father or if you know who your father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Next Question, Please | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...started at noon. During the concert, bouncy, boyish-looking Lecturer Bernstein roamed the stage with a microphone stuck in his jacket, sometimes sat down at the piano to dash off a musical example. Only occasionally did he indulge in cuteness, as when he spoke of "Grandfather Bassoon" and "Little Sister Piccolo," or explained that orchestration is like "putting clothes on notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lennie's Kindergarten | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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