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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people to safe ground, but some clung to the roofs of their flooded huts to ward off looters. Ricksha Driver Mohammed Nasser, 18, boasted that he was making $5 a day carrying passengers through flooded streets. He will need the money: the shanty he shared with his mother and sister was washed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh A Country Under Water | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...replace Diana Edge '88, one the best players to play the game. Also Jenny Holleran, number-two player last season, is taking the year off. Freshmen Brooke Bailey of Newark, Del., Carrie Cunningham of Gross Point, Mich., and Mary Greenhill (men's squash player Bobby Greenhill's younger sister) of Greenwich, Conn...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Frosh Crop Should Harvest Awards | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...Papal Visit Office, Sister Rita Brassard, said that the bus had come from the town of Quacha's Nek, which is in a remote area in the south of Lesotho, a mountain nation completely surrounded by South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 60 Held in S. Africa Hijacking | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...announced his first run for the Senate in 1972. Carrying plastic lawn chairs and coolers, more than a thousand Democrats are pouring into the park, twice as many as have ever come to the party get-together in the past. As three generations of Bidens alight -- his mother, father, sister, wife and two of his three children -- the Senator is swamped by friends and the curious, all straining to get a glimpse of the man who vanished from sight seven months ago. In a blazer and an open-neck shirt that reveals a tiny scar, he looks like the healthiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden Is Also Reborn | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...Senate at age 29. His wife and three children were returning from buying a Christmas tree in Wilmington when a truck hit them. His wife and infant daughter died; his two sons were critically injured. He considered giving up his seat, but his family rallied around him. His sister moved into the Wilmington house to take care of the boys, and he began his daily three- hour round-trip commute to the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden Is Also Reborn | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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