Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theodore Shadrick, a gaunt, silent man with a face seamed by 37 years in the coal mines, was eating breakfast with his wife when he heard the sound of running feet. A neighbor burst through the doorway of the Shadricks' mountain shack with a breathless shout...
Comely, black-haired Martha Minnen kept no peacocks, but she had other eccentricities. To her neighbors in the tiny village of Witgoor in the Kempen region of Flanders they smacked strongly of witchcraft. There were her cats, for instance. "It's just beyond belief," said one Witgoor villager, "the number of black cats you see around Martha's house at night." Then there were the sparrows. Why should a woman want to give a neighbor's children a nest of baby sparrows...
...meets an unhappy woman whose husband bought her "freedom" from serfdom - but also tore her away from her lover, who remains a slave. At the house of a neighbor he watches the owner mercilessly bleed his peasants while affecting the most cultivated French manners. And another time a landowner tells him: "As I see it, the master is the master, and the peasant is the peasant... and that's all there...
...advantage of an old Connecticut law herself. She took the Poor Debtor's Oath, under which a person swearing to less than $17 in assets may escape jail for unpaid judgments. This week Alice Fox returned to her family and her old neighborhood. What did she think of Neighbor Rollo now? "I will not mention her name...
...what soft spot would the probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia's neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the U.S.S.R.'s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. A well-nigh endless series of footling governments has done little to help...