Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stopping over in Hong Kong, Damle, with a smile and a shrug, told a reporter that the stories of Red China's purge had been greatly exaggerated. "Some few hundreds have been shot in Peking and its neighborhood," said he, "but these were mostly scoundrels who have committed misdemeanors under the old regime and who are receiving their just deserts." Furthermore, Damle added in admiring tones, Communist China's trains are running on time...
...long and devoted service to the children of his neighborhood, the Council also decided to name the traffic circle at Mt. Auburn Street and Elmwood Avenue after the late Professor William J. Harris. Harris built a bathhouse for the children of his Mercer Circle neighborhood as well as performing many other services for them...
...Million-Sized Audiences." A gay and garrulous showman, Iturbi doesn't have to worry about audiences staying away. In eight Hollywood films, he has created an Iturbi following of millions-many of whom never heard a concert pianist in their lives until they went to the neighborhood movie. His records (Victor) have earned him well over $100,000 a year. Last week he wound up his latest U.S. tour with a concert in Miami which won the shouting approval of 2,300 fans. It was a typical Iturbi crowd-pleaser. After his first number, Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata...
MACARTHUR: "I can tell you with considerable responsibility, Senator ... I went down to Formosa . . . The Generalissimo has probably in the neighborhood of a half million troops. The personnel is excellent. They are just exactly the same as these Red troops I am fighting. They have a good morale. Their material equipment is spotty . . . My own estimate would be after the material was there, that those troops would be in very good shape . . . within four months...
...Pourer of Tea symbol in America can be construed to mean the community leader, the chairman of the neighborhood social service organizations--in short, the successful professional man's successful hausfrau. If the young lady is graduated from Wellesley College without this social leadership urge, she has no one to credit or blame but herself...