Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also happens to have a few "Catholic radical" acquaintances, and though far from a radical himself, he objects when a pugnacious Brooklynite damns Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "filthy Jew advisers." One day Billy Ryan, the neighborhood Tammany boss, looks Moon straight in the eye and thunders, "You and your goddam Communist friends." A few hours later Father Malone angrily orders Moon out of the neighborhood rectory. Moon, who has never knowingly talked to a Communist in his life, recalls that a priest had once warned him that there were elements in the Church guilty of ignorant hate...
...keeps at it now "because I love it." She gets $1,900 a year. (Teachers with college degrees make $2,900 in Jackson, but Miss Neal has not yet had time to finish her studies.) To get by, Miss Neal takes tickets after school and Saturdays at the Fix Neighborhood Picture Show...
...stretching our endowment dollars today," Reynolds said, estimating that expenses for this year will run in the neighborhood of $22,000,000. Most of the 1,800 different gifts and legacies held by the University carry some restriction on their use, so that of the $162,000,000 of endowment, only about one-fifth, or $32,000,000, may be applied in any way the University wishes...
...what they are, the White siren is worked most of the time in the ultrasonic range. The average man cannot hear sounds above 14,000 cycles. Women are receptive to slightly higher pitches. White cites one exceptional woman, "a nervous, Park Avenue type," who can hear sounds in the neighborhood of 24,000 cycles. So can canaries. If annoyed with ultrasonic heckling, canaries turn their heads to an angle of least annoyance...
...organization during the past year, Charles G. Bolte, national chairman of the American Veterans Committee, told an audience of over 100 at the University AVC chapter's Anniversary Dinner in the Hotel Continental last night that the current task of liberal groups is to "find roots in the neighborhood on the basis of everyday activities so that when you speak up on matters of world policy people will stop to listen...