Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past eight years, an Austrian living within sight of Switzerland could phone his Swiss neighbor only by routing his call through Vienna, 300 miles off, so that the censors might listen in. A staff of nearly 1,000 censors stuck their collective noses into letters from Vienna and the Russian zone, and into all telegrams, wireless and Teletype messages going abroad. Worse, the Austrians had to pay the $500,000-a-year cost of all this censorious attention...
...school does not actually open until fall (full year's fee: $1,550), the students and counselors have already done a good deal more than a term's work. They have planted a flourishing acre and a half garden and started storing up its vegetables in a neighbor's home freezer. They have rebuilt the two chicken houses, converting one into a girls' dormitory and the other into a red-curtained privy...
Egypt, getting wind of the negotiations, tried to dissuade her Arab League neighbor, but did not succeed. British power in the Eastern Mediterranean now relies on its bases in Malta (naval) and Iraq (a big air complex at Habbaniya), its military and financial control of the tiny kingdom of Jordan (whose British-trained Arab Legion is the Arab world's finest army) and its army base on the island of Cyprus. Faced with getting out of the Suez, the British at first talked of expanding Cyprus, but ran afoul of Cyprus' lack of harbors and the disfavor...
...quote the Confederate General Forrest as saying he would not have gone to war if he "hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers and other folks' niggers." For several years prior to General Forrest's death in 1879, I was his neighbor on Union Street in Memphis, and on several occasions I heard him say slavery was not the sole, or even the main, cause of the War Between the States. Less than 10% of the people of the South owned even one slave...
David Looby sat on the veranda of his brown, one-story frame house on a humid Chicago night last week, and listened bitterly to a murmur of voices on the porch of Neighbor Mark Deady across the street. David Looby, 53, is an ordinary citizen, a stocky municipal electrical foreman who earns $650 a month and goes regularly to Sunday Mass at St. Margaret of Scotland Roman Catholic Church. But he nursed an extraordinary hatred for a clerk named Ralph Adams who had been courting 35-year-old Mary Deady for five years. Reason: Ralph Adams was in the habit...