Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calling today a "time of stupidity," he declared that the victor nations are "bewildered and discouraged. Each nation suspects its neighbor, and each endeavors to snatch everything it can from its neighbors in order to get better positions for the next world...
Whether or not that time ever comes and Russia openly takes over the political reins in Finland, it is certain the Finnish economy is becoming more & more integrated with her big neighbor's to the east. Only one-third of Russia's reparations bill can be paid in wood products, although more than 80% of Finland's prewar exports came from her forests. A third of reparations must be paid in machines and tools, and most of the remainder in ships...
...terms with Russia, building up their export trade, following a Red-Green domestic policy that has not yet resulted in large-scale nationalization of industry or redistribution of land. The Finns are moving slowly and quietly, like a man tiptoeing for fear he'll wake a rough-&-ready neighbor...
King in a Palace. The preaching becomes a harangue only at the end. For the rest, there is a long, slow-moving narrative, often vivid, of daily life at Summerhouses farm. The nearest town is a five-hour trip by packhorse. The nearest neighbor lives out of sight, over a ridge...
Spare, handsome John Cavanaugh won a gold watch for leading his Notre Dame commerce class. On graduating, like a lot of Notre Dame boys, he signed on with the Studebaker Corp., the university's South Bend neighbor...