Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe Harvard's drought is linked to the fact that the NCAA didn't control women's athletics until 1981. Before that year, the National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) governed women's sports as kind of a poor sister to the NCAA...
Having compromised his family and country, John entered the courtroom with a broad smile. Michael rocked in his chair at the defense table and turned to grin at his wife Rachel and sister Margaret. Father and son seemed to avoid eye contact. After they took turns pleading guilty to espionage charges, their attorneys successfully urged the judge to accept a plea- bargaining agreement they had made with the Justice Department...
...freedom. At a recent charity ball in London, she wore a silver drop-dead, bare-backed, broad- shouldered gown. Instead of leaving at midnight like a proper Cinderella, as is the royal custom, she was still dancing at 2:30. A month later, while Charles was away, her sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale persuaded Diana to go to a country house ball in Leicestershire. The bachelors were too timid to ask her to dance. Exercising royal fiat, Diana grabbed one young man and said, "Come on, for goodness sake, let's dance." She did, until...
...Falcon Restaurant, just down the street from Bean's, and he says customers ask his waitresses where various stores are, but "they don't know. The stores are going in so fast." He says it's not one new store at a time but ten or 15. "My sister-in-law lives in Florida now and has been gone three years. When she got back, she just couldn't believe...
Lange does an admirable job of making us like Cline, giving her a spunky down-to-earthness that evaded even Sissy Spacek in Sweet Dreams' highly superior sister film, Coal Miner's Daughter, but only at the expense of making her seem entirely too ordinary...