Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major migration (actually nonexistent) and a resulting crime wave (Milwaukee has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S.). Says Zeidler: "There are many people in this town who will swear they've seen those billboards. When you ask them, they'll say it was a neighbor. When you ask the neighbor, he says it was a friend of his brother's. But they are always very specific: the billboards, flaunting my signature, have been seen near the Miami Airport or in Jackson, Miss." The Milwaukee Federated Trades Council recently wrote labor groups in ten Southern...
This distribution of undergraduate interest has the additional effect of preventing Eliot from becoming an anonymous, amorphous mass. Its members all have their own circles of friends, but there is no pressure on making a close friend of a next-door neighbor merely because of his contiguity or saying hello to someone from tutorial merely because he is one's tutorial...
...debunking may be no less wrong, but Treece at least tunes his legend to the barbaric realities of 6th century Britain, with its Saxon seawolf marauders, its roving robber bands, its shattered relics of the Pax Romana, its poor riven land where man's hand was at his neighbor's pocket or throat...
...Understand, I am not envious of my neighbor; I do not grudge him his good fortune. It is my sons I am worried about. For they are young and do not realize how good our way of life is. They saw only that your American machines did in one day what we have not finished doing in hundreds of years. 'Why,' they ask me, 'should we spend our lives picking at rocks which machines can remove so easily?' For several years they stayed at home not smiling with their work, but scowling at it. Now they have gone to Naples...
...think," the farmer once again eyed his audience intently, "that you could get the American government to come back to Viggiano and restore the mountains on the land of my neighbor? For then, surely, my sons would realize that it is their fate to work the land, and not to can tomatoes. Surely your rich American nation would do this. I have sent letters to your government, but received no replies. If you would use your influence...