Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last ready to recognize Dictator Somoza's government. They were wrong. Later, to shut off the guessing, white-haired Ambassador Dawson telephoned 17 embassies (but not the Costa Rican, Honduran or Dominican, whose governments recognized Somoza last year) and made it clear that inviting a neighbor to a neighborhood powwow did not mean approval of the way the neighbor acted...
...tell her father. A quiet girl with shoulder-long hair, she spends her time at home studying the nonhereditary mutations of the fruit fly. Her father, a school principal in New York City, had already heard the news on the radio. Cried he into the phone: "Half the neighborhood's drunk already...
...higher faculty salaries. The University of Washington has started a $20 million building program-to complete the upper campus in "collegiate Gothic," the lower campus in modernistic glass-&-brick. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is building a functional $15 million Illinois Institute of Technology in a tumbledown neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. CalTech needs $5,000,000 just to maintain the new telescope on Palomar Mountain...
...mass of untheological Christians, God has become, at best, a rather unfairly furtive presence, a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought. At worst, He is conversationally embarrassing. There is scarcely any danger that a member of the neighborhood church will, like Job, hear God speak out of the whirlwind (whirlwinds are dangerous), or that he will be moved to dash down the center aisle, crying, like Isaiah: "Howl, ye ships of Tarshish...
Those costs would leave in the neighborhood of $400,000 for the auditorium scheduled to be added to Memorial Hall. In the only relevant recent construction estimate, Shepley assigned a figure of $1,250,000 to a proposed Student Activities Center, plans for which included meeting rooms and offices as well as a 1500-seat theater...