Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efforts failing, Argentina signed her own treaty with Paraguay, giving trade and financial concessions never dreamed of before. Simultaneously she redoubled her frantic efforts to entice neighbor Chile into her "free-trade area," offering a subway for Santiago, a tunnel under the Andes and other pleasant things. The Chilean leftist press described it as another attempt by Argentina to escape from isolation...
Cigar, Lady? With all his clowning, Breneman knows that it sometimes pays to be solemn. He is careful to treat old women with respect. He air-expresses an orchid to "the good neighbor of the day"-chosen from nominating letters sent in by listeners. Sometimes he presents an orchid to a member of the audience. Often she is a Midwestern farm woman who has never seen one before, and she frequently accepts it with tears in her eyes. Breneman will offer a grandmother a cigar if he thinks he can get away with it. He constantly asks his audience...
They say you should love thy neighbor but those nasty Bow Street Boys, Mother Advocate and Junior 'Poon, have been feudin' again. It is quite a surprise, relationships on that boundary are generally as amicable as the U. S. Canada line...
...Middle Temple. Evidence collected at preliminary hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned up and the wild things various police officers heard Freddy say in the days following the crime...
...Good Neighbor Doctors. Tulane does not claim to be a great research school (tropical disease research goes on at many Government-financed laboratories). Tulane's chief interest is in preventive tropical medicine. Matter-of-fact Dr. Faust says the first step in protecting the U.S. is to prevent soldiers abroad from getting tropical diseases, the second step is to prevent the diseases from spreading. Most Tulane postgraduates are men strategically placed to do something about tropical-disease prevention: they are either 1) Army doctors or 2) civilian doctors who teach in other medical schools (their tuition is paid...