Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then India decided to launch a second. $10 billion expansion plan. But the expected foreign capital was not available, and costs turned out to be grossly underestimated. With the government forced to cut imports to save foreign exchange, food prices have risen 16% in six months. India's neighbor. Pakistan, is not much better off. Once the breadbasket of undivided India, Pakistan had virtually no industry. In the struggle to industrialize, Pakistan raised industrial output 285% between 1950 and 1955. But so much land was shifted out of wheat into such crops as cotton and jute for export...
...Walker whines and hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts the right possessive touches into her acting of the hero's sister. Sylvia Davis and Ethel Britton handle comic roles well, even if the exaggeration is not always useful. One of them, as a cowlike neighbor, seems to emit, "I mean, what the hell" every minute or two of her life. It's funny at first...
...householder): My set seems to require more service than my neighbor's. Did I buy a lemon...
...From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this cacophony at the adjoining home of William E. Myers Jr. and his three small children. Reason: the Myerses are Negroes, the first to buy in five-year...
...anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half a block away paused one evening to chat with Myers, found...