Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into a neighborhood health center crowded 44 buzzing citizens, ranging from a boy in green corduroy slacks to a determined-looking grandmother. They all came to learn First Aid from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...
...whip her tired kinfolk into action. She succeeds immoderately: not only does her favorite cousin Elliott (well played by Actor March) regain his faith and flex his muscles, but his daughter slides out of a mess with the wrong man into marriage with the right one, and a neighborhood feud blossoms into a very pretty friendship...
Calm hung over the quiet west London suburbs of Acton, Chiswick and Ealing. Housewives popped in & out of neighborhood stores with hardly a glance at the sky. They felt perfectly safe; the Germans hadn't been over London for months. It was a few minutes after nine on Armistice Day morning...
...little hoeing in your own garden? You may not know it, but since last June your patch has become so infested with Red skunk cabbage that it is beginning to be a nuisance to the neighborhood...
Newsman Weller guessed that Drummer Carrington's enthusiasm might preserve drum talking for at least a few more years in the Stanleyville neighborhood. But even in Africa change is inevitable. Today, when Quarrelsome Smith wishes to refer with his drums to a white man, he politely beats: "White man spirit from the forest." In his youth he would have walloped: "Death on the river...