Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paid a $25 fine in Waterbury police court for breaching the peace. But she wasn't to get off that easily. Katherine Rollo, who had to spend six days in the hospital from the kicking, filed a civil damages suit and won a $1,200 judgment from her neighbor. She refused to accept payment of $2 a week: she wasn't going to wait any ½ years to collect, she said...
...turning point in our attitude came with our abandonment of intervention and our adoption of the Good Neighbor policy. It was an act of statesmanship such as has rarely been displayed by any world power. The era of good feeling that followed was its reward...
...acceptance of equal status is the essence of our Good Neighbor policy, which is not, as some think, a policy of philanthropic largesse. It is, in the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt's original proclamation, the policy of 'the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others...
...small-town courtroom in the South and an unmistakable talent for reporting the impact of human passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...
This week Dean Acheson received a joint protest from 14 Latin American envoys, assured them that the U.S. was still their good neighbor. Senator Gillette's forthright recommendations seemed likely to be modified or shelved. As long as coffee sold in U.S. stores around 77? a lb., the latinos would continue to enjoy what one cynical ambassador had called "a Marshall Plan...