Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefully stocked with smelling salts and tranquilizers, the engines were checked and the tanks were topped off. The travelers were ready to go. Then someone realized that they had not alerted the pilot. That little matter attended to, Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, the ladies were...
...admiring gasp when she was introduced as the mother of seven children. Eunice drew sober attention with a summary of her brother's war record, his qualifications for the presidency ("It would take more than Jimmy Hoffa to scare my brother"), and took on the job of outlining Sister-in-Law Jackie's qualifications for First Lady: "She's 31, speaks five languages, is very much interested in children. She would make the White House a gay and pleasant place. There would be life and laughter...
...slapped him back in uniform at the local military academy. His smiles gone, Mohammed went back to following Reza Shah to reviews and parades, and in 1939 just as obediently trekked off to Egypt and brought back the bride his father had selected, the pretty Princess Faw-zia, sister of King Farouk...
...Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights...
...teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia's Dawn Fraser, 22, an octogenarian by swimming standards, and the slumping, doubt-ridden Ilsa Konrads, the 16-year-old kid sister of John. World Record Holder Fraser will be the favorite in the 100 meters (her main threat: Chris von Saltza), and a dark horse in the 100-meter butterfly, thereby stands an outside chance of winning three gold medals on her own, plus a fourth for the 400-meter freestyle relay...