Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benson asked a family lawyer to investigate. Steven, the prosecutor argued, feared disinheritance. Experts testified that his handprints were found on receipts for a length of 4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08, including tax) and two pipe endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court that he left the car just before the blast, ostensibly to get something from the house, and kept his back to her as she screamed for help...
...Helga picture inside some other work, then transport it to a climate-controlled vault at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford; only he had the key. Somehow he managed to keep model and wife completely apart. Though Helga is employed as a cook and housekeeper by Wyeth's sister Carolyn, who also has homes in Chadds Ford and Maine, Betsy says she never visits her sister-in-law. Says Betsy of Helga: "I never met her, ever...
...genre of old murders reconsidered. But the question of who did what to whom and why is teasingly left unresolved. Nonetheless, the reader is almost certain to become enmeshed in the story of domineering, possessive Vera Hillyard, her malicious older son, her seemingly illegitimate younger son, and the devoted sister who secretly seeks to escape Vera's grasp and instead provokes a murder...
...perceptible easing of hostilities between the sister cities has helped dispel the East Berlin reputation for gloominess. The process of normalization was set in motion in the early 1980s by Richard von Weizsacker, who was then West Berlin's mayor and is today West Germany's Federal President. Von Weizsacker became the first West Berlin mayor to meet with Erich Honecker, East Germany's Communist Party leader. Small signs of cooperation began to emerge on areas of mutual concern like waste disposal and pollution. Although the almost daily contacts are still conducted on an unofficial basis, the numbing silence...
State Department officials said the Swiss government, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, had been denied the right to meet with Pattis. In Aiken, S.C., the engineer's sister Ellen described him as a "very quiet, private" person who would never be involved in spying. Pattis is one of an estimated 2,000 Americans living in Iran...