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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of music censorship received national attention following a series of circus-like Senate hearings that pitted the likes of Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) and Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) against Zappa and Dee Snyder of the heavy metal faves Twisted Sister...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Zappa Defends Obscene Lyrics | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

...76th Street I saw my brother and sister in-law and raised my hands to pose for a picture...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running on Empty | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...ship analyst at the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., noticed three photos of a Soviet aircraft carrier lying on a colleague's desk, he thought they might be of interest to Jane's Defense Weekly, a British magazine. Morison, a part-time editor of a sister publication, filched the photos, which had been taken by an American KH-11 satellite, clipped the "Secret" markings off the corners and mailed the pictures to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damming a Leak | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...that Mimi wills herself into accepting everything at face value." Betty: "The one thing (she) has never been able to recapture is that sense of effortless superiority that she possessed at the age of 16. Where once she had only to display herself against the dreamy passivity of her sister Mimi, she is now surrounded by women of her own type, all of them, according to Betty, 'lacking in humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relativity Family and Friends | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...handicapped child, Robin Groves manages to evoke no sympathy whatsoever. She henpecks her daughter constantly, never realizing that 15-year-old girls don't like being saddled with responsibility for little brothers. To protect her son from "giving up" she tries to shelter him from tiffs with his sister and other "unpleasantness," but she does nothing to keep the 13-year-old crippled boy from racing all around town on a souped-up motorized wheelchair that blows by cars as if they were standing still. Even after his best friend is torn to pieces by the werewolf, she doesn...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Misfire | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

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