Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, a solemn band of Chippewas waited in their feathered best for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick one afternoon last week. The Indians planned to make the colonel a Chippewa chief, although they were a little hazy on the reason why. But they trusted their neighbor, who had set up all the arrangements: Editor John Chappie, 51, of the Ashland Daily Press (circ. 4,397), who idolizes Bertie McCormick as the world's foremost military expert and the "most courageous American alive." Explained one squaw: "We would do it for Chappie because he helped...
...teaches religion, if he attempts to be definite, if he admonishes and exhorts, if he really loves God and his neighbor fearlessly, he will be despised and rejected . . . Scandals will be spread about him and the witchlike malice of the self-righteous will fall on him. The pride of the semi-educated . . . will flourish in village sloth. 'Many country people think there is something in all this religion,' as [Anglican Layman] Samuel Gurney says, 'and they aren't going to have anything to do with...
...March 5 articles-"Frank's Barber Shop" [see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER] and "The Long Road"-which have a universal appeal to all men. They serve to arouse sympathy for one's fellow man, and also emphasize . . . that the fundamental virtues of charity and love of neighbor ... in this spiritually rudderless era still are a more powerful influence for world peace and unity than the strictly negative Hoover Plan or a revitalized Fortress Europe, or an all-out atom bomb attack on the hydra-headed monster of Communism...
...director's table in a big basement room lined with an antique gun collection. One Christmas Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...small country such as Iran cannot possibly survive the ambitious appetite of its northern neighbor if it is not substantially assisted by the Western powers. Two years ago, extensive plans were laid out by a group of American engineers who unselfishly and wholeheartedly endeavored to bring order out of chaos. Had the seven-year plan originated by this group been enforced, or had it even received the blessing of the U.S. Government, the economic situation of the country would have been stable today, and the threat of Communism decreased rather than increased...