Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pious Mayor Jijén feels that for years Ecuador was ruined by Liberal politicians bent on weakening the church, secularizing the schools, legalizing divorce. Then, one day in 1924, "I suddenly realized that the evil was not in our neighbor's house but our own." He entered politics. Since then he has bossed Ecuador's Conservatives. "The country needs order," he says, "with a certain directed liberty...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...
...only naval engagement of Paraguay's war was fought last week on a neighbor's waters. The rebels...
Gilded Bottoms. With the economy of the Good Neighbor thus bolstered, Mike Alemán was ready to see more of the U.S. Behind him was only one minor incident to disturb hemispheric solidarity. At a high-brass dinner in the Mexican Embassy, freshly applied gilt had come off the chairs onto the formal bottoms of such U.S. dignitaries as Senators Vandenberg and Connally, Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellenbach...
...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...