Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate to use the phrase big-brother, big-sister-it's cheesy-but you can be a resource," he adds...
Four freshman grace the roster as well, including middle hitter Katherine Hart, who is Elissa's younger sister. The mix of young and veteran players should make the season interesting, if not difficult-to-predict...
...dashing Dodi was royalty of a different sort. He was the only son of Mohamed al Fayed and his late first wife Samira Khashoggi, sister of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. The elder Al Fayed is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is greater than the Queen's. His sprawling empire contains some highly prized European properties. In addition to London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease...
...fidgeted constantly, pulling at various parts of her white sequined dress as a child might. At a dinner following the opera, she walked, alone, down a huge winding staircase without ever looking at her feet, so we knew she was a princess. But at dinner she ate like your sister, tearing into her meal with a kind of wanton delight, turning aside her lady-in-waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation that dessert hadn't come yet. There are those who will see in this scene the evidence of an emergent eating...
...played baseball until dusk, and then I read. I read before dinner, after dinner, even during dinner if my sister and I were feuding. (The pages of certain volumes from my childhood are maroon with catsup stains.) When I was especially tired or restless, I reread, with the result that I can still recite passages of Johnny Tremain and The Willie Mays Story from memory...