Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little money working on an ash truck, and a fat Italian mother who helps buy food by cutting flowers out of cloth. He went to school, where his teachers considered him bright, and in the evenings he played in a rock-strewn vacant lot. Usually he played with the neighborhood girls because he was too little to get much attention from the older boys...
...there he saw-he was sure he did-the Virgin Mary. She told him to pray. She promised to return on 16 nights, and then to make a well spout from the hill-just like the miraculous spring in The Song of Bernadette, which had played at the neighborhood theater...
Frank Sinatra is the chief spokesman and one of the chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...
...Development, described some: "I certainly . . . want to see rigid federal control of what is done in this area [atomic research]. I certainly do not wish to think that some group of [atomic] experimenters might set up a laboratory half a mile from my home and family and . . . poison the neighborhood, or possibly blow it up. . . .I say we are faced with a very difficult thing to control . . . and I would make a very strong commission to do it." Bush added that radioactivity from careless experiments might "sterilize everyone who passed by" in the immediate vicinity...
...members of the Harvard staff on September 25 urging attention to the worthy purposes of the Greater Boston United War Fund. "In a free society," he said, "the responsibility for meeting community needs is continuous. Harvard will do its full share, I am sure, in support of this great neighborhood undertaking...