Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief and noncommittal. Red China and India would meet in Peking next month, at In dia's request, to discuss "outstanding matters in regard to Tibet." There was nothing in the wording to show Indians themselves that Prime Minister Nehru had grave complaints to lay at his neighbor's door. Among them...
...hardest of all to take has been the board's practice, for about 30 years, of hiring restaurant-haunting alcohol spies. A Swede who dined out never knew whether his innocent-appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send...
Father is a self-stoking, small-town domestic tyrant. "She doesn't know beans with the bags untied," he snorts of a neighbor. He yowls about the grocery bill, growls about the cat hair on the furniture, jabbers like an old sailors' home about his youthful adventures at sea. When daughter hints at braving father with her theatrical ambitions, mother squeaks, "Hush! You know how he threw around those cantaloupes when all I said was I thought they were peaches...
...Obstacle. In Halmstad, Sweden, after his left ring finger was twisted by a neighbor during an argument, Amos Johannson, 58, sued for damages, won an $80 settlement when he pleaded that his marriage had to be postponed because he could not get his wedding ring on until the swelling subsided...
...chief of state is ex officio co-ruler of Andorra, a tiny (pop. 5,200) feudal principality of happy, Spanish-speaking shepherds and smugglers nestling amid the peaks of the Pyrenees. This amiable sharing of rulers has not prevented Andorrans from quarreling almost continuously with their big neighbor and protector to the north. Last week they were at it again, and, as both co-Prince of Andorra and President of the Republic of France, blinking, kindhearted Vincent Auriol was in the middle...