Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given them by the state, and explaining that they had lived in idleness too long to be expected to work. Two months ago, when the Indian tax bureau offered to buy the princes' palace as a new headquarters for itself, Yadavindra jumped at the chance to rid the neighborhood of his useless kinfolk. He signed the deeds and served an evacuation notice...
...problems (and their bills) that hundreds of Michigan men and women came to know him as "Uncle Harley"-a typically absent-minded bachelor professor with a penchant for forgetting speaking engagements, a taste for collecting Liberian stamps, and a passion for hosting woodland picnics for the children of the neighborhood...
...Back Way. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after householders reported that a car was tearing around the neighborhood in reverse, Assistant Police Chief Reine Schmidt investigated, found behind the wheel a teen-age girl who explained: "My folks let me have the car, and I ran up a little too much mileage. I was just unwinding some...
...lived just across the street during young Virginia's impressionable early years. The little girl was curious about the Corkell family's Irish background, had a crush on a Corkell boy named John, the anglicized version of Sean-the spectral Bridey Murphy's husband. A onetime neighborhood playmate remembered Virginia well: "She had a good imagination. I always thought she could write a book...
...people are nothing more or less than a Communist setup. The children grow up without anything but a communal attitude. It isn't the American way, certainly. They take over large areas. It's equivalent to what happens in the city when Negroes move into a neighborhood. Others move out and the prices drop. Of course they're less prone to psychotic or neurotic troubles because they stay away from efforts to improve our way of life...