Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some will condemn the Air Force Academy code that provides for expelling not only cheats but those who have knowledge of cheating and remain silent [Feb. 5]. Those strong enough to expose will be called stool pigeons. The name callers are the same people who would watch a neighbor being beaten and do nothing. The nation can't afford officers too weak to live by a strong moral code...
Toni and Ray McBride live in suburban Wauwatosa, Wis., outside Milwaukee, and have been happily married for 19 years. Professionally they get along like enemies-which they are. "When I call the office," says Toni, who covers women in politics for the Milwaukee Sentinel, "I go over to a neighbor's house or do it while Ray is walking the dog." Her husband, an assistant city editor on Milwaukee's other paper, the Journal, is even more secretive. The McBrides recently lost a relative of some prominence-he was mayor of Green Bay-but Toni did not know...
Dahl's visitor, however, returned late Sunday night. This time Dahl and his neighbor, Clement, who was studying in his room, took the youth to Young...
...wagon was flooded crossing the Red River, sending the tombstones to the bottom while the kegs floated off downstream. Most remarkable of all is the story of Sam Ordway himself and his half-year search throughout Texas for his little son Ned who was stolen away by a neighbor. Ned is not found until years later, but on the way every conceivable stereotype of the Old South and the Wild West is slyly overturned or brazenly outfaced...
...sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village near the sea who wants only to build himself a house and live with his gentle mistress-and of his neighbor, Govindan Nair, who helps him. Beneath that surface runs Govindan Nair's unscrupulous ingenuity and his innocent-seeming philosophy: "Learn the way of the kitten. Then you're saved. Allow the mother cat, sir, to carry you." And still beneath that is the Everlasting Now of the Hindu...