Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High spot of the competition was the annual distribution of Thanksgiving baskets to the needy of Cambridge, and along the same line is the first project of the new committee, the holding of a Christmas party for neighborhood children...
Shelter. City rents in Russia do not vary according to neighborhood but according to monthly income. In Moscow a person in the middle-income bracket pays 2% rubles per square meter of floor space, whether on eight-laned Gorki street or in a converted church, and no one is allowed to occupy over 9 square meters (96 sq. ft.). Since apartments average around 60 square meters of space, single persons and small families have to share apartments with others...
...tough summer for Eisenhower and his staff, quartered in a neighborhood of hotels and flats in London, on a square dubbed "Eisenhower Platz." The job of preparing this U.S. Army for an invasion was no sinecure. The E.T.O. (European Theater of Operations), official tag for the 1942 A.E.F., was an amateur army of mechanics, salesmen, bartenders, boxers, bond salesmen, cowboys, lawyers. How many there were was always a guarded secret, but convoys dumped thousands upon thousands on Britain's shores. They had learned something about tactics in maneuvers back home, but they were still far from ready for combat...
...investigators discovered that the infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) virus was present in the feces of the sixth child. They also found the virus in two groups of cousins with whom the children had come in contact, and in one family of neighborhood playmates-ten children in all. Yet none of these children, though harboring the polio virus, got the disease...
...Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco has a long conversation with a courtly old party who turns out-in a sudden accession of fantasy-to be Death...