Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left wing secured 40 tickets for his friends and family and the Armstrong clan had a big night at the rink planned, because Armstrong's sister, a champion teenage figure skater, was scheduled to perform between periods of the game...
Once the fires died down, the survivors returned to sift through the ruins. Raúl Peña Duarte, 44, stared numbly at the rubble of a three-room house that had sheltered him, his wife, four children from ten to 16, his mother-in-law and her sister. "All my family died there," he said. "I had gone to work. They were all asleep. A piece of one of the tanks went through there and then everything burned. I think I will leave here. What's left here...
None of Williams's belongings will be distributed by the trustees before the death of the playwrights's 73-year-old sister Rose, who had a lobotomy at the age of 24 and now, lives in an upstate New York sanitarium...
...show up late or fall asleep after they arrive until finally a friendly, energetic Trinidadian nurse takes over and be comes the book's unlikely heroine. For a story of two isolated women, Sheehan's canvas is crowded with lively figures, including Claire's callous sister and a diabolical city administrator. The author's prose is as prosy and readable as Trollope's, and she has written a lion-hearted little book...
...education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent-movie westerns...