Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigid controls and searching publicity. What has increased is the opportunity for the pettier kinds of cheating, largely because of the growth of communities and of population. In the urbanizing world in which crossroads are turning into shopping centers, towns into cities, and cities into megalopolises, nobody knows his neighbor's name-or feels responsible to him. The impersonality of the supermarket, the super university, the super-corporation gives the individual a guiltproof out: "After all, I'm not hurting anybody in particular...
There, the Red Guards were running riot. Into a Canton barbershop burst a squad of Red Guards, accusing the barbers of using "capitalist-smelling" pomade. The barbers struck back, and two teen-age Guards fell, slashed to death. In a Peking side street, a woman wept as her neighbor was led away-but she was weeping for joy. The old man had once hired her for the humiliating duty of wet-nursing his children...
...will be protesting Wilson's Rhodesia policy, which so far has failed to cripple the country's economy. The most vocal absentee: Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, who threatens to leave the Commonwealth entirely unless a full-scale invasion is mounted to bring force against its southern neighbor. Another absentee, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, is almost equally adamant. Arriving in London for the conference, Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai offered Britain an alternative: either invade or turn the whole affair over to the United Nations. Failing that, warned Sir Albert, Sierra Leone might quit...
...nearest neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
...cards to heavy smokers-but they would not hesitate to barter the cigarettes they got from the Red Cross for extra tins of food. Far more popular were the Roman Catholic missionaries, who generally displayed a spirit of freedom from material wants that enabled them to play a creative, neighbor-helping role in the community...