Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wildly alarmed chain of neighborhood weeklies declared that Communists were trying to seize Detroit's soot-blackened city hall, shrilled: "If the true picture could be told, patriots would not sleep nights." Handfuls of small cards fluttered one day into downtown streets. Sample: "FitzGerald Says the Negroes Need Protection! Protection Against Whom? What do YOU Think...
...through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
...used to the orthodox set-up this job is quite a problem. For example, Joe Lauterbach was trained at Minnesota to pivot slightly to his right, make a "Wave-fake," and then get out of the neighborhood as fast as possible. Now he takes a full turn to the left and, with his back to the line, walts for the wing and/or the tail to go past before the play gets under way, with deliberateness rather than speed the key point in the take...
...that isn't all. In the last six weeks your news broker has had reunions right here in Cambridge with two other gents who, with him, formed a very important part of the Harter Heights Terriers, a kid football team which was the "scourge" of the neighborhood back in South Bend as long...
...local factories. But their real lives began at night when the great doors of the holds had clanged shut on them. Then the prisoners crept out of their bunks to dark corners where, with light provided by stolen electrical equipment (salvaged from the wreckage of R.A.F. bombings in the neighborhood), they set up "clubhouses . . . based on a unique interest...