Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful, winning last August a reduction of $502,721. Town officials, who would have to make refund, and who faced similar litigation for the years 1935 to 1939, calculated they would have to write their neighbor a check for some...
...head out in one direction, it would be chopped off by Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
When World War I broke out, the Assembly of the Union of South Africa voted unenthusiastically to join on Britain's side -so unenthusiastically that there was a short, angry civil war before South Africa was able to turn on its German neighbor, South West Africa, and conquer it. After the War national lines were sharper than ever. The rise of the Hitler regime in Germany was reflected in South Africa by the outcropping of Nazi cells from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Last April it was rumored the Nazis were ready to seize South West Africa...
...true! Every word true! Not a lie in it!" So Daniel Boone used to crow about Kentucke, the famous Kentucky history which first printed his "autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...
...than white men. Biographer Bakeless agrees with Boone that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where he could make a fortune. His jokes tried to conceal his ambition...