Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That people might say, 'Wouldn't you just know a woman chief would do this to us?' " Any criticism was deflected by Watson's refusal to regard her pregnancy as an impediment, other than planning to take a six-week maternity leave after the baby arrives. Watson's older sister, Karen Philippi, who is a manager with the Houston water department, likens her to "women who used to have their babies in the field and go on picking cotton." True, but her condition did force Watson to reluctantly turn down a trip to California to appear on To Tell...
Here in the Boston area, Governor Michael S. Dukakis plans to spend the holidays with his family in a small, private dinner at home, and the office of Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolfe disclosed that she will be at her sister's house in Belmont for Thanksgiving. Neither public official would comment on what they were grateful for this year...
...names clicked off: The Roberts family, two brothers and a sister who all joined the Marines; Andrew, my best buddy since Kindergarten; Scott, Timmy, Tom, Jeff, Steve, Mark, Richard, Doug--names I want to scream every time I hear a dining hall conversation about what constitutes an acceptable number of casualties in a hypothetical Gulf...
Twenty years ago, Fish almost missed a game because his sister had died in mid-November and the funeral date was set to coincide with The Game, said Lydia Fish, Hamilton's wife...
...freshmen joining the team include highly-touted left wing Joey Alissi, defender Beth Messmore--sister of junior right wing Lauren--and field hockey standouts Emily Buxton and Francie Walton. Walton collected Ivy Rookie of the Year honors for her contributions this fall to Harvard's league championship team...