Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luckiest hanging was that of Will Purvis, 17-year-old Mississippian, convicted of shooting a neighbor in a Bible-belt feud. Hundreds watched the body fall, then tumble to the ground as the noose slipped. When the crowd cried: "Hang him!" the official doctor climbed on the gallows, asked for a show of hands from those who really wanted to see the boy die. Nobody raised his hand. Years later another man confessed the murder...
Using just the right tension, Vag overcame the wiry toughness of the French bread with an unsophisticated jerk, and settled back to enjoy the fruits of his conquest. He marvelled at the deft skill with which he had snared the bread from under the clutch of his neighbor. "Physical Ed's made me a new man," he gloated, proudly fondling the bulging biceps of his right arm. Gracefully ignoring the fork that clattered to the floor, Vag reached out for his cup of tea. The long last month wasn't so bad at that, he reflected as he sipped contentedly...
President Roosevelt, who loves good news, went beaming to his meeting with Good Neighbor Prado. The less optimistic might wait and wonder, but Franklin Roosevelt was confident of a victory won. The thunderheads broke; the rain poured down. The skies brightened. Said the first Navy communiqué: "Very excellent news has been received...
Other men at such a meeting might have searched their minds for more memorable words. Not so Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt and Good Neighbor Manuel Prado Ugarteche of Peru. But it was a memorable occasion: Señor Prado was the first incumbent President of a South American country ever to visit Washington...
...Minneapolis woman brought her neighbor to testify that she had no sugar. She knows," she explained, "because I always borrow from...