Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sale or rental of housing. Yet, compared with the earlier legislation, the open-housing provision literally came a lot closer to home. The sad, even outrageous, but inescapable fact seems to be that the white is not yet acclimatized to the notion of having a Negro for a neighbor. So the bill last week became the first civil rights measure to be killed by Congress in nine years...
...turned out that the ringleader had got the idea for the escape when his job required him to use the dozer to level the forbidden strip opposite Spandau. He and a neighbor in the nearby hamlet of Falkensee lined the cab with steel plate against the bullets of border guards, and it was a sound idea, since the bulldozer was hit by at least 30 bullets. As an additional defense, both men had carried bags of pepper "to throw in their eyes in case they stopped us." Far more fortifying were other advance preparations, which may have explained some...
...frail tykes born two months premature, Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets have developed into quite a gang. "They are terrible," groaned Mamá Inés Maria Cuervo de Prieto as the five boys celebrated their third birthday with the neighbor children in Maracaibo. "Anyone who stays with them for more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest...
Indeed, man's capacity for misunderstanding his neighbor seems inexhaustible. Take sex. Thomas Jefferson believed that apes raped black women as one way to climb a notch on the social scale. Even today, people like to think that apes possess a savage and unrestrained libido. Actually, they are scarcely interested in sex at all. In 466 hours of directly observing gorillas in the wild, Anthropologist George Schaller witnessed only two copulations and one unsuccessful try. Furthermore, gorilla swains are sadly underendowed by human standards: the erect male organ measures a scant...
After 23 days, the second monkey was as placid and healthy as ever, but the decision maker died-of ulcers. The Morrises charitably refrain from pointing out the obvious moral, which is not that man's nearest neighbor is smart enough to get ulcers, but that the ape's nearest neighbor is dumb enough to inflict them...