Word: neighboring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...each block of every Cuban city, town or village. Each block elects a steering committee of 11 that is responsible for maintaining public health and combatting educational truancy. The committees also are charged with a vague responsibility known as "vigilance," a system, critics say, that leads to neighbor spying upon neighbor...
...said yesterday that Sawhill is his former college roomate, and Deutch a close neighbor...
Earlier this month Morocco's smaller neighbor to the south, Mauritania (pop. 1.5 million), abruptly made a separate peace with the Polisario and gave up its own claims to Tiris el Gharbia, the lower reaches of the Western Sahara. To forestall a Polisario takeover there, Hassan promptly occupied the area with 2,500 legionnaires and proclaimed it Morocco's 40th province. Though it was cheered by flag-waving children, that annexation sorely raised the level of tension across the Maghreb. Algeria immediately accused Hassan of being manipulated by "colonialists and imperialists." The Polisario vowed to "intensify military operations...
DIED. Vivian Vance, 66, actress-comedian known to millions of TV viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel-the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are-Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy...
...Ohio last winter, Judge Neil W. Whitfield sentenced Robert W. Attwood, 20, who had stolen $10 worth of beer from a neighbor's garage, to four to 25 years in jail. On the same day, the same judge sentenced Mary Murray, a motor vehicles official, to five years probation for embezzling $8,000 in public funds...