Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine-member council refused a request for official sponsorship of a local mission to investigate reports that Salvadoran troops recently invaded San Jose Las Flores, the Central American town which may become Cambridge's symbolic "sister city...
...been warned by my younger sister, herself a JV coxswain in high school, not to put my feet on the bottom of the shell for it was not sturdy enough to withold 108lbs. of direct pressure. Mindful of her warning, I crawled into the boat. The dockmasters dissolved in laughter...
...several murders but is so widely disbelieved that she concludes her sins are minor, subject to a penance of three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard up but never raises a fuss: she wants Zanny's parents to continue paying for her education and shrewdly assesses them as candidates for tacit blackmail. Gill, a former elementary school teacher, has a keen understanding...
...Marie Vassiltchikov was born in 1917, one of the five children of Prince Illarion and Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family left the Soviet Union in 1919 to live in Germany, France and Lithuania, then an independent republic. During the Depression of the 1930s, Missie and her sister Tatiana (a future Princess Metternich) sought work in Berlin. The diarist's fluent English landed her a job as a translator with the Foreign Ministry's information department. After the war, she and her husband, Architect Peter Harnden, had four children. He died in 1971 in Barcelona. Missie then moved...
Brother George's reticence is a bit frustrating. On the other hand, his spare comments enhance a sense of mystery and allure. Photos of his sister in her 20s reveal mischievous Tartar eyes and a determined jaw. In the 1940s, she could have been one of the European film beauties who used only one name, like Valli and Annabella. In the '80s, her diary could yet make her a "hot property." Perhaps even now, Meryl Streep's telephone is ringing off the hook...