Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when, three years ago, his half-witted daughter Marie-Helene went to a dance in the nearby village and got herself with child. "L'idiote," the neighbors used...
...hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy. Harvardman O'Hara expected nothing more than a note saying McCarthy thought Neighbor Pusey was a fine fellow. But to O'Hara's amazement, McCarthy saw Red. He wrote...
Under the Floorboards. In 1949 the wife and baby of a neighbor were found strangled to death. Police charged husband Timothy Evans with the murder of the baby. Christie was the chief witness at the trial, and his evidence helped send Evans to the gallows. Last December Mrs. Christie disappeared. No one in the Notting Hill neighborhood paid much attention. Later, after Christie moved away, a new tenant found a woman's leg behind some wallpaper in the bathroom (TIME, April 16). A police search uncovered the trussed and strangled bodies of three women hidden in a sealed closet...
With a Stocking. In the next five years Christie was not sure whether he had killed anyone. "I might have done," he murmured. Then in 1949 he became friendly, but "not intimate," with his neighbor Mrs. Beryl Evans, who was despondent over a coming baby and her husband's affair with a blonde. Christie turned the gas on, then. "I think I strangled her with a stocking." Later he removed the stocking, told her husband she had died. He denied strangling the baby...
Your excellent coverage of the coronation sets new standards of high-level reporting, with the best of historical and political perspectives added for good measure. We share the happiness of a close neighbor who is throwing a swell shindig . . . We strongly suspect the drinks-and possibly the eats-are on us, so we may be pardoned if we view the proceedings with a jaundiced eye, [but] remembering always that our neighbor has lost much more than money in fighting two wars that were ours as well as his own-even before we got into them. So we doff our hats...