Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delights in appearing each Tuesday and Thursday to bat down hostile questions from the Opposition. He was eminently savage in his welcome of Peter Griffiths, the new Tory M.P. from Smethwick, who had beaten Gordon Walker in a campaign marked by the ugly slogan: "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labor." "A parliamentary leper!" cried Wilson, bringing thunderous Tory boos, repeated interruptions, and a torrent of national criticism...
...still sets policy, he writes few editorials nowadays. Instead, he concentrates on his column "Thinking Things Over," which he writes when the mood strikes him. "An editorial is a formal presentation," he says. "In my column, I can spin my wheels a little. I try to sound like a neighbor talking...
...walls, she saw an unmade bed and an overdone rabbit stew smoldering on a gas cooking ring. Slumped in a chair and dead of a heart attack lay 97-year-old La Belle Otero, her jet hair now grey, her teeth false, her wrinkled skin still highly rouged. A neighbor who had come in each afternoon to tidy up gave Caroline Otero's epitaph: "She was constantly talking about her past, and I was not listening any more. It was always the same: feasts, princes, champagne...
...world who won the heavyweight championship twice. He's also the only fighter in the world who lost the heavyweight championship twice. Floyd Patterson, 30, broods about it. What do the folks out there think of him? He got some idea 21 years ago when his neighbor in Scarsdale built a 6-ft. spite fence between their houses. Floyd had an even better notion. He built a fence between his face and the world. Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public. Decked...
...informed that he was to go instead to Moscow to dance in the Kremlin, and could rejoin the tour later. "Dance in the Kremlin indeed," scoffs Nureyev in retrospect. "I knew this was a crisis. I was like a bird inside a net. A bird must fly, see the neighbor's garden and what lies beyond." So he flew...