Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mike Alemán did not come to the U.S. just to have fun. On his third day in Washington, he stood before a cheering joint session of Congress and suggested (in Spanish) that "the policy of the Good Neighbor" should be implemented with "an economy of the Good Neighbor." In short, Mexico needed money. Alemán got some. He and President Truman announced together that the U.S. Export" Import Bank had agreed to lend Mexico an unspecified amount. Washingtonians figured that Mexico would do well to get one-third of the $175 million she had asked...
Three in a row will be the cry today when the Varsity travels down-stream to meet its Cambridge neighbor, M.I.T. It will be home-coming for Crimson mentor Bob Maddux who coached the Engineers lacrosse ten before moving to Harvard...
Eternity & Bread. The obstacles had seemed towering. There was the Vatican, raised in immovable majesty above men and nations, a neighbor to eternity. There was the ancient land which had seen the works of Roman reason and Christian faith. There was the echo-petrified and arrested in time-of the world's greatest spirits, which made even simple 20th Century peasants somehow contemporary and kin to Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yet a band of conspirators, whose faith was a tenth as old as the simple stone cross in a village church, could capture these works and values-capture...
...make sure that none of his American customers ever got any such specimen of Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...
Alone among the Dominion's leading newspapers, the Montreal Star supported Good Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...