Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There were a bunch of Yalies sleeping in the Junior Common Room from our sister house at Yale who had permission to sleep here and apparently didn't have any friends," he said. "They were all really nice...
...Soviet spy. What made his case so intriguing was that his profile seemed at odds with the stereotypical idea of a grubby turncoat. His patrician grace had somehow survived a family life streaked with tragedy. His father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life seemed blessed. After graduating with honors from Johns Hopkins University, Hiss at Harvard Law School was befriended by Professor Felix Frankfurter, who arranged for his protege to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hiss worked for law firms in Boston...
...sadly interesting motif of parallel dysfunctions ran through the Hiss family as well. Alger Hiss's father committed suicide rather savagely, slashing his throat with his own razor. Alger's sister Mary Ann also killed herself, by swallowing a bottle of caustic household cleanser...
DIED. ELEANOR DULLES, 101, head of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk during the cold war 1950s; in Washington. The sister of then Secretary of State John Dulles and then CIA Director Allen Dulles, she helped West Berlin recover from World...
...This question is an excellent chance for you, the older sibling, to demonstrate your intimate knowledge with the detailed workings of the University. Delivered well, your answer to this question will infinitely impress your sister...