Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...
Ayub had not expected that the ragtag collection of opposition parties, ranging from crypto-Communists to right-wing orthodox Moslems, would unite behind a single candidate. But unite they did behind the revered sister of the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-i-Azam (Great Leader) and founding father of Pakistan. Trained as a dental surgeon (she practiced only a year), Fatima Jinnah's experience in politics was limited to campaigning with and for her brother...
...aged girls, including the three for whom the search was started. They were prisoners in what Mexican newspapers called "a concentration camp for white slaves," complete with tiny cells and grisly torture devices. In the house, police arrested two notorious white slavers, Delfina González Valenzuela, 55, her sister María de Jesús, 40, and a handful of their helpers. A few weeks later police picked up a third sister, Eva. Further search at the ranch and at two brothels owned by the sisters uncovered the remains of 17 young women and five babies...
Curiously, he even manages to work Elizabeth Taylor into the story. It comes in the form of a fond description of the hero's sister. "When my mother died, she, my sister, had become my mother, and more mother to me than any mother could ever have been. I was immensely proud of her. I shone in the reflection of her green-eyed black-haired gypsy beauty . . . She was innocent and guileless and infinitely protectable. She was naive to the point of saintliness and wept a lot at the misery of others. She felt all tragedies except...
...sister dying, Mad Dan?" I said...