Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, blow smoke into his face, hoping to provoke an incident. On one occasion his wife was attacked by a woman who noisily claimed to have been Djilas' mistress, but Djilas took the case to court, where the woman, a provocateur, was fined. Children in the neighborhood were told not to play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn Djilas, the authorities insisted that he leave his old apartment for another in a house not yet built...
...embarrassing having to take little girls to the men's room." He also complained that all four kids at the zoo had insisted on, taking their shoes off, leaving him with pockets and handfuls of mixed pairs. After he got home. Patience Dion let a dozen neighborhood children into the house while Krauss was reading the bedtime story. He shooed them...
...family of four youngsters is particularly difficult. To me, the hardest part of being a mother is boredom. You wash the same dishes every day, fold the same clothes, dust the same bookcases and change the same diapers." A "Krauss hint" for an easier life: mothers in a neighborhood should pool their children so only one mother at a time need watch them. Another: tots should be parked in bigger backyard playpens and not be permitted to interrupt chores even when they start to howl. Said Bachelor Krauss expansively: let them howl. And would he have a try at playing...
Pusey had said at the Council of Neighborhood Associations meeting on May 4 that some faculty members sent their children to out-of-town schools because they felt "there is some room for improvement in the Cambridge schools...
...Fred Nicholas was one of the first helpless figures caught by the searchlights as he shuffled uncertainly across the shadowy border that divides black from untrusting white in South Africa. To be reclassified as colored means that he will have to leave his home, move into a colored neighborhood, lose his vote, his job. No one knows how many other little neighborhood tragedies are likely to follow, some, like that of Fred Nicholas, starting with a slingshot's rock through the window...