Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintain a state of affairs delicately suspended between peace and war, while at present desiring neither. This is a most dangerous policy, and one which world opinion will increasingly condemn, if you continue to resist any move to obtain at least a less dangerous modus vivendi with your neighbor...
...Baltimore she killed an old-lady neighbor in her 80s, Mrs. Clara Post, by simply pushing her over a bannister into a stairwell. That way Rhoda got an opal pendant which Mrs. Post had promised to leave her when she died. Rhoda was seven then. Rhoda was a good student. In the old maids' school she tried earnestly to win the penmanship medal. When she lost it to another student, she snatched it from him at the annual school picnic, then shoved him off a dock and drowned him to cover the theft...
...exporting foreign countries, and the higher goals may allow some stockpile" purchasing abroad. The Randall Report, the Milton Eisenhower Report on Latin America and the Capehart Report on defense production all recommended increased stockpiling as a sound way of bolstering wobbly foreign economies. Last week the Administration gave one neighbor a lift by agreeing to buy up 100,000 tons of Chilean copper...
Stevenson also pointed out that Europeans view the Communists in their countries differently than do the Americans. When we think of one of these communists, we think of a malevolent conspirator. "Most Europeans, on the other hand, think of a neighbor, friend, fellow worker or even relative who votes communist not to express his approval or preference for Russia, but to express his disapproval of the conditions in which he lives and works...
...ever wrong it was wrong about Hollis Hall. With the pious hope that it was adding to undergraduate sobriety by housing all the students within the College gates, the Corporation opened Hollis in 1763, thus making it the fourth oldest building in the Yard. Three days later, Hollis' neighbor, Harvard Hall, burnt down in a spectacular blaze, and the Hall's restraining career was off to an auspiciously bad start. Since then, Hollis has provided a colorful mixture of deviltry and distinction in College history...