Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instilled in you for so long that it is taking you an undue time to account for the evil, unmovable, base nature of human beings. We are beasts and so shall we remain as long as somebody's wife is better looking than ours; as long as a neighbor has a better car than ours; as long as our shouting for a principle or idea is overtaken by someone who shouts louder; as long as we may feel that there are weaker beasts willing to be told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from...
...August 1965, after the Watts riot. He informed police that he had subsequently given it to his daughter, Mrs. Robert Westlake, then a resident of Pasadena. Mrs. Westlake became uneasy about having a gun in the same house with her small children. She gave it to a Pasadena neighbor, George Erhard, 18. Last December, Erhard sold it to someone named Joe?"a bushy-haired guy who worked in a department store...
...border, has created a vast if little-noticed common market now accounting for fully one-fifth of the two countries' $14 billion in annual trade. Traffic within that market runs both ways-the U.S. last year imported 318,000 cars from Canada, exported 239,000 to its neighbor in return...
...there is some release, a pushing back, for a time, of the horizons. There is talk with one's neighbor, the compulsion to relive the moment when you were hit, to hear how it was when he was hit. The helicopter pilot tells over and over how the shattered AK-47 slug he is fondling came up through the armored floor of his chopper, ripped through his calf and embedded itself in the dashboard. As do the others, he reconstructs his adventure with the clarity of total recall-the surprise, the pain, the pleasure of having faced death...
...business. The death of a small place like Calvin Coolidge College may seem to be a good move, but, as Daniel Webster used to say, There-Are-Those-Who-Love-It. CCC is actually the undergraduate division of its next-door neighbor, the Portia Law School. Portia is an interesting place. It was founded in 1908 to provide, as you may have guessed, legal education for women. In the mid-30's the school trustees decided to admit male students and to open an undergraduate division. And so was born Calvin Coolidge College. Each institution was more or less autonomous...