Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being a frugal man; he considered lavish official entertaining "a waste of money." He lived in a large brick house (rented) on cobbled O Street in fashionable Georgetown, waited on by two servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks ago he didn't know that his Cabinet colleague ' lived only a few blocks away. He had no hobbies-"except my grandchildren." He was a man who stood upon his dignity. "If there is anything I hate," he told some...
...puppet to reach agreement with Stalin. Mao and Stalin well knew that the Western world was hoping that they had fallen out. The hope was probably illusory; nevertheless, Mao's prolonged visit might be a sign that all was not well between Soviet Russia and her new Communist neighbor...
...Gromyko note meant one of two things: 1) the Russians are trying to better the chances of the Finnish Communist Party at the polls; 2) Russia is ready to take a more direct hand in the affairs of its little neighbor. Explained one Finnish official cautiously: "The Gromyko note is Russia's way of protesting against the Social Democratic government and [conservative] Paasikivi as presidential candidate...
Poor "Lizzie" Peabody. "Busybody" might have been a better name. She was such a congenital, selfless do-gooder, almost too perfect a distaff product of New England's 19th Century intellectual flowering. As a child of four in Salem, Mass., she was already envious of Neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running...