Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preach or threaten . . . We want not sullen obedience, but friendly cooperation from our allies . . . We want no satellites; we want companions in arms ... I hope I have misread the signs of the revival of the discredited 'dollar diplomacy' . . . Ours must be the role of the good neighbor, the good partner, the good friend-never the big bully...
Pakistan complained to the U.N. last week that it "faces an unparalleled threat-starvation by a process of slow strangulation." The strangler, said Pakistan, is its neighbor, India. The process: "depriving 76 million persons of the waters of the Indus basin, by which they live...
...rationed, and the government has been forced to buy 650,000 tons of wheat from Canada, Russia, India and the U.S. India dismisses the food shortage as the product of bad husbandry, inefficient distribution and a scourge of locusts; the hungry Pakistanis are sure that their richer, more powerful neighbor is intent on starving them...
...small Turkish town of Seferihisar, loves his country and loves his hashish.* One day not long ago, after a zesty breakfast of coffee and hashish, Huseyin glanced out of his window and, to his horror, saw a detachment of Soviet soldiers standing menacingly in the garden of his neighbor. Without a moment's hesitation, he seized an axe, leaped the fence and began laying about with a will. He dropped three to the ground before the police, hastily summoned by the neighbor, at last subdued Huseyin long enough to point out that his enemies were nothing but olive trees...
...facilities. Others, especially those written by famous alumni in business and government, are dis-connected and slightly platitudinous. It is in the evaluation of Yale life by members of the administration, however, where the reader will catch a revealing picture of the differences between Harvard and its New Haven neighbor...