Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...units had surged forward from their beachheads against a scattered, disorganized resistance, swiftly capturing more than a fourth of the 60-mile-long island. Under Major General Roy S. Geiger, the leathernecks of the III Marine Amphibious Corps had pressed north, reached through the Ishikawa Isthmus to the neighborhood of Kin. Under Major General John R. Hodge, the doughboys of the XXIV Army Corps had moved south toward Naha, the island's capital...
...neighborhood toughs greeted the new vicar of St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel with sneering hostility. They tried to frighten him off the sidewalks with raucous taunts about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage...
...that a parish is made of people, rather than of bricks, Father Schlueter always opened St. Luke's door with an equal welcome - for the dirtiest urchin, the haughtiest dowager, the most troubled atheist. He turned his big Connecticut farm into a camp for poor children, and the neighborhood toughs, beginning to suspect their own toughness, went off and spent whole summers there. His study became familiar to hundreds, for he had a knack for easing people's troubles...
...ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there opens up a group picture of tangled lives and one-sided marriages...
...Chemical garden which raises pre-dehydrated fruit, vegetables and fish in sufficient quantities to feed the whole neighborhood...