Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother, unable to volunteer herself, found she could serve by keeping tidy the house of a sky-watching neighbor...
...Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice President Avery Rockefeller, whose second cousin Nelson is now officially the U.S.'s No. 1 good-neighbor man. Under this deal Yerex could be outvoted four to one by U.S. citizens...
Scrappy, invective-loving, democratic Swiss editors had long been soft-voiced when speaking of their powerful, threatening neighbor. Now they were soft-voiced no longer. In the bluntest language printed on the European continent in months, the Neue Berner Zeitung declared: "The National Socialist conception of a new European order is absolutely incompatible with the freedom of Europe's states and peoples...
From every side the emaciated shuffled toward the church. The skin stretched tight over their cheekbones. Spidery fingers clutched and dragged at bags and baskets. Then each waited, telling his neighbor how only through a miracle was he or she still alive. The sun cleared the mountains and spread over the village of Arcadia. A child suddenly called out: "Here they come! Here they come...
Once upon a time (in Loretto, Pa.) humble little St. Francis College had a rich neighbor and alumnus who lived across the road in a $3,000,000 mountain castle called Immergrun (German for Evergreen). He was the late Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab. Often Mr. Schwab promised his alma mater a $2,000,000 endowment, but he never got around to it. Instead, when he died three years ago, bankrupt Mr. Schwab left the college holding the bag to the tune of $25,000, which he borrowed from it in 1932 and never repaid...