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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soliah, actress, part-time waitress and best friend of a slain S.L.A. member, joined the movement after surviving guerrillas reluctantly approached her and her boyfriend Jim Kilgore for help. As Hearst later wrote, "She had been considered too flaky to be trusted." But Soliah joined "enthusiastically." As did her sister Josephine and brother Steve, who briefly became Hearst's boyfriend. In August 1975, Soliah allegedly planted pipe bombs underneath two L.A.P.D.. vehicles, which were found before they detonated. The next month, Hearst was arrested and gave up evidence against the remaining guerrillas before being sentenced to seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiding in Plain Sight | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Cole, the first female African-American president of Spelman University, heralded Wilson as "a wonderful sister president" and praised Radcliffe's new incarnation...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilson, Rudenstine Reassure Alumnae | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...world's smallest countries, but the Monegasque ruling family generates more tabloid fodder per square mile than the Windsors. The saga of Caroline and her younger sister Stephanie is low rent compared with the Brits', but their celebrity and notoriety help attract tourists--as did their father Rainier III's 1956 marriage to the actress Grace Kelly, who died in a 1982 crash. If only brother Albert could find a bride like dear old Mom--and sire an heir. Otherwise, France has the right to gobble up Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Crowns | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...both lost so much. She and I had survived Auschwitz. His life was a mess. He talked continuously of Anne. They had been very close. He had heard from friends about her last days in Bergen-Belsen--how she didn't think her parents had survived, how her sister Margot got typhus and died, and that Anne, thinking she was the only one left, just gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The War: The Travails Of Otto Frank | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...kind, he did not love her. Still, he was grateful to have Anne's words and to find they had power to influence the world. The book, and working on it, I think it saved him. Eva Schloss wrote Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The War: The Travails Of Otto Frank | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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