Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similarly, though a white condo owner's voice of rationality may tell him that the purchase of a unit down the hall by a Black professional is not about to lower the property values in a mid-town building, he resists accepting his new neighbor. How does he reconcile his preconceptions about Blacks to this situation when the only Black person he knows personally is his cleaning lady? He may even know other Blacks professionally, but he still clings to his ability to distance himself socially...
Parker described his message as "Here I am and this is who I am--I'm your next-door neighbor, you've known me all your life, you'll just have to measure me against whoever the other fellow...
...Watergate, hell," his neighbor said. "We're cheering because she broke the pressmen's union...
...were no discernible differences in patois between rich and poor. Unlike their British cousins who developed the language, Americans did not have to look to the upper crust for guidance on the proper use of the King's English. We have traditionally had to look no farther than our neighbors. Now, if we ask to see our neighbor, his son might reply, "I don't know where...
...create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just as in our own lives we may hold a grudge against a neighbor...