Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before his car pulled into the palace again. "You don't know what it means to look at the faces in the barrios," he said. "People smile now. It's only six years since no one smiled and everyone was afraid of his neighbor...
...bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...
...Compton-Burnett plot? This way: Christian had never known who his father was. had grown up simply as the "adopted son" of Sophia's father, old Andrew Stace. In point of fact-as the letter now reveals-he was old Andrew's illegitimate son by a neighbor of theirs, one Mrs. Lang, and thus, of course, his wife's half brother. Christian takes this discovery so much to heart (which was never strong) that he drops dead. But Sophia is made of sterner stuff. Bravely burying her husband-half-brother, she murmurs to the children...
Milk Your Neighbor. In its trade with the satellites, Russia has consistently milked its unhappy neighbors. It overvalues its ruble to set the prices of raw materials, undervalues the currencies of the satellite countries when setting the prices of their products. The upshot of the entire relationship is that satellite nations have been kept so weak economically that Hungary's revolt and Poland's new freedom disrupted the entire system...
...good as it should be. There have been many bad comments about our dearth of research." Except for medicine, none of the university's eleven professional schools is in the front rank, and in spite of Pitt's traditional emphasis on engineering, it lags far behind its neighbor Carnegie Tech as a technological school. Adds Litchfield: "Our humanities and natural sciences are fairly strong. But the social sciences are weak. We have been grossly inadequate in our work in anthropology. We are practically starting instruction in the subject...