Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, baby-faced Sherbondy holed up in George Bauer's farmhouse. Mrs. Bauer pleaded with him. Her seven-year-old son had appendicitis. Would he let a neighbor drive them to a hospital? He would. "I knew they would tell the cops," Sherbondy said, "but I couldn't let the little kid die." When the guards came for him, he just about caved in. His legs were frozen to the knees...
...ello's death in exile had its measure of victory. The fight against Somoza would go on. Most American nations would continue to refuse diplomatic recognition to Bad Neighbor Somoza. For his few months of defiance, Argüello himself might even become a symbol of freedom...
...When it was over, and the time for the hoopla and the recalls and all that had come, no one wanted to make very much noise, or had very much to say, or even looked his neighbor fully in the face as he filed from the [studio] hall...
...came closest to realizing his earlier ambition to draw. ("What, you, too, Mr. Titmarsh? you sneering wretch. . .?") His last and most famous Christmas book-The Rose and the Ring-was written around some sketches he had drawn to amuse his daughters. He continued his fairy tale to entertain a neighbor's sick child. "It was," wrote the little girl, "a black day when the dear giant did not come. The people in The Rose and the Ring were real people...
Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...