Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kissing your sister is one thing...
...growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna to Zurich and back; both backed off, divided up the spoils of their joint investigations and retreated into opposing tents of theory...
Today 295 is run by two court-appointed trustees, including Michael Moroney, a labor-racketeering investigator since the 1970s. Even so, Carey earlier this year took a detour around the Teamsters' constitution by intervening in a dispute against Local 295 on behalf of its Mobbed-up sister Local 851. The Lucchese clan has long dominated 851, as Moroney reminded Carey in a stinging letter last February. Yet Carey told the Detroit News in June he had no knowledge of Mob influence at 851. Two months later, the local's leaders were indicted for Mafia-linked extortion...
...upbringing that wasn't a lot of laughs. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, divorced his mother when he was eight. The family moved around a lot, with stops in Brooklyn, New York, and Landover, Maryland. "Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying," says Lawrence's sister (and personal assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy...
...Harvard, she is teamed up with her sister Winkie, who plays defense for the Crimson. "It's fun to play with my sister," Mleczko said. "[And] it makes it easier on my parents...