Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late studying. The Council committee showed that although more chairs have been put in House libraries to combat the rising demand for space, this addition did not necessarily increase study capacity. Just as a man in lab requires space in which to work without being disturbed by his neighbor, so a man studying in a library needs enough isolation so that he is not continually distracted...
...governments should reduce . . . our own intervention in the fields of commerce and industry." The Latinos wanted outside financing totaling $1 billion a year; Humphrey suggested "intensified and expanded" loans by the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, and" promised that the U.S. would be not only a Good Neighbor but also a Good Partner...
...year ago on behalf of the President. But what the U.S. proposes to offer seems to be far short of what the Latin Americans would like. If the Latinos are let down at Rio, their disappointment may generate the most serious era of bad feeling since the Good Neighbor Policy began...
...wall of Eller's house that put the old farmer's kitchen and two bedrooms in his native Italy, consigned the remaining six rooms plus the chicken house and stock barns to Yugoslavia. Farmer Eller started to protest but was hushed by the police. An Italian neighbor shook his head in dismay. "This is worse than Groizia," he mourned. "All they did there was separate the town from the cemetery...
...ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize...