Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner and appearance, 50-year-old, white-haired George Denny, a onetime dramatics instructor, is a cross between Harry Truman and Dale Carnegie. He had been moderator of the show since it began. He got the basic idea when he heard a neighbor say he'd "rather be caught dead than listen to Roosevelt on the radio." Denny, who grew up as a Democrat in North Carolina but voted Republican in the last few presidential elections, got to wondering: "How can we get our neighbors to listen to the other side...
...military position. In the event of an immediate all-out war, wrote Messe in the magazine Oggi, the Russians would have 45 divisions available for use against Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia. To counter them, there are 30 Yugoslav and eight Italian divisions. But, asked the marshal, "What if our neighbor [Yugoslavia] should look for shelter under the protecting wing of 'Great Mother Russia'? ... It is evident that in our sector security can be obtained from ourselves alone." Soldier Messe recommended two immediate steps: build up the police and security forces to protect Italy's interior from Communist...
...only 3,600 miles in diameter. So Pluto has less than half the earth's diameter (7,920 miles) and is about one-tenth its mass. It is slightly larger than Mercury and considerably smaller than Mars, less than one five-hundredth the size of its neighbor Neptune (over 30,000 miles in diameter...
From the day big (6 ft. 6 in., 215 lbs.) Jim McMillin went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940 to coach the freshman crew, he was determined to beat good neighbor Harvard in a big race. Although Harvard had helped to start M.I.T.'s crew in 1913 with equipment and advice, the relationship had long been that of a poor nephew and rich uncle. Long before he became varsity crew coach five seasons ago, McMillin was thoroughly fed up with being just a poor relation...
Wild Oats. In Brooklyn, Mosha Byron, reprimanded for shooting craps in his 100th year and arrested for illegally practicing medicine in his 102nd, was hauled into court again, this time for cursing a neighbor, was ordered by a doubting judge to go home and get the birth certificate to prove...