Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an eye cocked toward Castro's Cuba: a branch school for counterguerrilla instruction, to be set up in the Canal Zone. By training Latin Americans in the skills of guerrilla warfare, the U.S. hopes to put teeth into President Kennedy's promise "to work with our sister Republics to free the Americas of all foreign domination and tyranny...
...exported to underdeveloped countries from the U.S. and from Russia. American capital is no danger to democracy. Russian capital brings with it Communism, which is the end of democracy." And he added an outspoken warning about Castro's Cuba: "Let us keep in mind the experience of a sister nation that, oppressed by tyranny, revolted and raised the flag of justice. But after victory, the people wound up exchanging one tyrant for another...
There is another alternative, not often granted by the church, known as the brother-sister vow-in which a man and woman are permitted to live in public as man and wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...
...well, after all, and that through her own willfulness she might be "paving a path to perdition," not only for herself but for the man she loved. In an agony of conscience, she appealed again and again to her parish priest. She had never heard of the brother-sister vow, but had come to the conclusion that she and John could stay together if only they avoided "adultery," i.e., sex ("A neat trick, if you happen to be quite young, quite normal, and very much in love"). Her priest obviously felt the trick was all but impossible; he offered...
...that would pass, then as a cruel denial of his conjugal rights. There were violent quarrels. But as Claire persevered, John slowly began to see things her way, and they began searching for a priest who would help them get a bishop's permission to take the brother-sister...