Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the unions try to observe the old fraternal forms. Members still call one another "brother" and "sister" -but mostly in formal correspondence, not in face-to-face conversation. The interior walls of many a meeting hall in many a fancy local headquarters are of unadorned cinder blocks to recall unionism's hard-knocks days; chances are that more money has been put into the locals' recreation rooms, with air conditioning, paneled walls, billiard and ping-pong tables and bars (the staple still is beer...
Seventeen-year-old Gavin Burke was watching his nubile sister. She threw her legs over a sofa arm, exposing cream white thighs and pink knickers. "Nice legs, hot stuff," said the Black Angel. "Stop that. She's your sister," replied the White Angel. Black Angel: "Remember last week, going past the bathroom? You looked." White Angel: "You're diseased. Degenerate." Black Angel: "Stop being so serious, I just said they're nice legs...
...with silent loathing among the majority Protestants -"the Prods." In short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early military victories. Not his complacent mother, not his studious brother, not his pretty sister nor even his student-nurse girl friend Sally-"a nun in mufti." In fact, about the only thing that gives him any comfort is something not even the angels could understand: modern poetry, and especially Wallace Stevens' lines...
...leather goods store, Snug, a bar which is, and Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...
...wealthy Manhattan recluse and philanthropist, whose fortune from stocks and real estate topped $25 million at his death and whose abiding interest (he never explained why) was the health of student nurses, for which he gave hospitals some $10 million over the years, all the while living with a sister in one of his Harlem tenements, until she died of malnutrition in 1956; of arteriosclerosis; in Trenton...