Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman counseled the long (if partisan) view: "It isn't just you, old boy," he explained, "and it isn't the Good Neighbor policy. This is a sellers' market. . . . There is no sentiment involved. They'll buy wherever it suits them best in terms of price and delivery. If all things were equal, as they must be again some day, they'll buy where they can sell the most of their goods. That, of course, means Britain...
Canada's good neighbor, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan, is worried about a vacant chair. For 37 years, ever since the Pan American Union moved into its marble-and-mahogany palace on Washington's 17th Street, 21 chairs (one for each of the American republics) have stood around the board of governors' table. In the basement, under wraps, is a 22nd chair, identical with the others except that on its high back are carved the name and arms of Canada...
...Religion [TIME, March 17], your writer discusses the new book by the Very Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., The Mind and Heart of Love. He refers to "agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called 'charity' . . .)." Of course, St. Paul didn't call it "charity" at all; he spoke Greek and called it "agape...
...famous novels (Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy) laid bare the seamy side of life with a bumbling crudity and literary formlessness that often alienated critics and readers alike. But he had the sincerity of a dedicated social worker and the naive, sentimental garrulousness of a kindly, troubled country neighbor. They brought him an audience and a place in U.S. literary history...
Quaffing a brew on the 5:48 out of Stamford last night, a Gov-major became interested in his neighbor, a tidy character who, between swallows of a rye-and-soda, was drawing invert-ted U-curves on a sheet of paper...