Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's Paris conference ECA's Averell Harriman put the issue thus: "...Success [of the ECA program] would be impossible in a system made up of small, autarchic, uneconomic national trading units, each one dedicated to self-defeating self-sufficiency, each one standing off his neighbor with ingeniously stultifying restrictions...
...high in the Bolivian Andes, Mrs. Elena O'Connor was preparing lunch. Her husband Tom, a Pasadena, Calif, engineer employed at the Patiño-owned mine, was visiting another U.S. engineer next door. Through her window Mrs. O'Connor saw 15 Indian miners rush to the neighbor's house and kick in the door. Minutes later the Indians came out dragging the two Americans, whose faces were blotched with blood...
...School has already accepted 525 of the 550 students it plans to admit from the crowd of 1276 aspirants. This 43 percent average shows that the Law, School is not so hard pressed as its smaller neighbor, the School of Public Administration, which plans to take only about 25 of the 150 people applying...
Thanks to the hospitality of neighbor sailors at MIT, Crimson yactsmen have never had to wish for boats. Harvard sailors, graced with early afternoon use of institute's fleet of 45 dinghles have consistently produced fine sailing teams ever since college yachting gained popularity over 20 years...
Brooklyn-born Comic Danny Kaye, currently wowing the British at the London Palladium, took time off for tea in Ayot St. Lawrence with Bernard Shaw. "It was a very happy and spontaneously merry occasion," reported Shaw's author-neighbor Stephen Winston (Days with Bernard Shaw). "They put on a joint act . . . there was no conversation . . . quite spontaneous and carried out in mime. Danny sat on the lawn looking whimsical and picking daisies. And G.B.S. strode up to him and slapped him merrily on the back . . ." Said Showman Kaye to Showman Shaw: "I can quite see, G.B.S., why you have...