Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declining years of the great, square-rigged cargo carriers was the annual "grain race" from Australia to England. Some 20 windjammers hauled anchor down under at the start of that race in 1932, but by 1949 only two were left to make the run: the Pamir and her sister ship, the Passat. One by one, the others had fallen foul of wind and wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly among the hornyhanded sailormen of northern Europe, who cherished...
...Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former Jet and the sister of a Shark-dream of a happy, peaceful Unpromised Land. Seeking the brightest possible contrast, the ballet has very little of Robbins and too much sweetness and lighting...
...loneliness and boredom, makes the aged feel they still belong to society. Many of the homes allow the oldsters full freedom of action, without curfew. "We were really surprised when we noticed some of our people going out about 8:30 and staying out until 1," says one sister at Detroit's Carmel Hall. "We don't interfere. We worry sometimes, especially if they don't leave word they will be in late, but everything has worked out fine...
Cold-turkey talk, served up by World Bank President Eugene R. Black, was the main dish last week for finance ministers of the world's underdeveloped countries. Meeting in Washington at the International Monetary Fund, sister of the World Bank, they heard Black give a polite accounting of the bank's biggest ($332 million disbursed around the globe) year since the Marshall Plan era. But far less polite was Black's accounting of how some of the loans were used...
...deceased. Brother Edward's two children, George Huntington Hartford II (the art and theater entrepreneur) and Mrs. Josephine Bryce, share 10% each of A. & P.'s stock, as do Mrs. Allan Mclntosh and Mrs. Charles Robertson, daughters of sister Marie Louise and Mrs. Rachel Carpenter, granddaughter of sister Marie Josephine whose five other grandchildren share the remaining...