Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notestein, "Gracious earlier preceptress of the accomplished young sister in whom Harvard now takes joyous pride;" of Stratton, "We rejoice in the election to high office of this humane, perceptive man of science, a good neighbor and helpful friend;" of Geyl, "Our knowledge of history has been deepened by this thoughtful historian's illumination of his kind;" of Miss Taussig, "Brilliant daughter of a brilliant father, her scientific investigations have helped to save countless children from death or lives of crippling pain;" of Barber, "His music lends strength and grace to the culture of our time...
...week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn into tidy squares, they wait on the porcelain tank of the toilet...
...stormy aftermath of Clare Boothe Luce's resignation as Ambassador to Brazil, President Eisenhower last week turned to a career man to be envoy to the biggest, most populous neighbor in Latin America. The new nominee: John Moors Cabot, 58, foreign service veteran (since 1926), currently U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, and Bostonian of first-family lineage...
...Committee of 21"-delegates from the U.S. and its 20 neighbor republics of the hemisphere-met in Buenos Aires last week to talk once again of Latin American economic development. To the U.S., the Latin American spokesmen said in effect: The gulf between your standard of living and ours is so broad that it threatens liberty and democracy in our countries. The U.S. reply: We deplore the gap, and last year sent $736 million in aid to close it. But you must help by showing some of the initiative that enabled our 13 original colonies to build from poverty...
...neighbor always mixes horse manure with food given his dog. Is this good? A. Horse manure is rich in riboflavin, but it would be better to buy vitamin-B compounds...