Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government officials, doctors and theologians debated the ethics of Copeland's actions, Creighton's mother and sister made their feelings clear. They thanked the doctor and the hospital staff for doing "everything within their human power to give him a life" and expressed the hope that the Phoenix heart experiment "would pave the way" for other heart patients in need. "We are thankful," they said, "that it was available...
...World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald. His parents and a sister had been murdered. How had he survived two of the most notorious killing fields of the century? "I will never know," he says. "I was always weak. I never ate. The slightest wind would turn me over. In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 to their deaths each day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped...
...reaction against that ferment. He believes, it seems, that the open-door policy of welcoming foreign skills and investment will permanently change the face of Chinese life--for the better. He may be right. Some 200,000 Americans alone visited China during 1984, many of them leading delegations from sister cities or sister states in the U.S. that are quietly establishing their own special access to China. In the opposite direction, more than 300 Chinese delegations a month travel to the U.S., soaking up technology, skills and, above all, attitudes and ideas...
...property" among them, the lawyer keenly feels injustice and fear. He offers money and then all of his possessions, including his ancestral home, to the one who will take his place before the firing squad. Against all expectations he finds a taker, a young man who wants his sister and ailing mother to survive him as wealthy women...
...from prison with papers that identify him as one Jean-Louis Charlot. Having lost everything but his life, the survivor feels driven inexorably toward the home he has relinquished. There he meets his unsuspecting inheritors: an old woman who knows nothing of the fate of her son and a sister who can think of little else. Therese gives the ragged visitor food and discusses the horrible man who bought her brother's death: "I tell myself that one day he will come back here because he won't be able to resist seeing what's happened to his beautiful house...