Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
...last week Erich went again to a neighbor and offered her some things he had found. She got angry. She was a hungry woman herself, with mouths to feed. "Listen," she said, "I have no bread to give you. Your things are worthless. You should find better things to do than going around begging." She slammed the door. Erich went away, his treasures clutched in his hand...
...bread was fine for her son; neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year...
Placid Loafers. In Linden, circa 1895, the pace of life was leisurely. The horse-cars would stop while conductor and passengers got out to give some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked hard but were not acquisitive enough, says Paul, to kill themselves at it. Even the town loafers, apparently a numerous caste, he remembers with respect for their placid bearing while their wives took in washing to support the family. But they were true to their natures, and so, it seems...
...World's. It was a three-car train, moving into a small, defeated neighbor country with a Government friendly to Moscow; nevertheless, it was guarded by 100 able-bodied young security policemen. In the next car, a "hard" car (i.e., without cushions), 70 Soviet sailors were riding toward an unknown destination; they were not told where they were bound, nor did these servants of a "classless" society dare ask their officers. They preferred to ask me, a foreigner. Most revealing of all was the view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border...