Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misgivings of U.S. businessmen about the current state of the U.S. economy are nothing like the economic complaints issuing from their neighbors to the north in Canada. After a decade of thrusting growth, the Canadian economy is gripped by a far more serious recession than anything the U.S. faces, and it has caught the naturally optimistic Canadian public by surprise. A slump in key industries - mining, manufacturing, house building - promised the worst unemployment since the Depression and a winter in which 720,000 workers, or 11% of the work force, will be out of work. And to hear the Canadians...
When lads have done with labor in Shropshire, one will cry, "Let's go and kill a neighbor," and t'other answers...
When Anouilh makes his sporadic shots at pathos, as in the final scene, in which the General accepts his defeat, the result is embarrassment. The glittering stage has for the first time become a living room, the General has become your next door neighbor, and you wonder what he's doing on the stage. One cannot feel compassion for a character who has been the embodiment of ideas, cuckolded age trying to relive youth, a character who has never been human...
...ringleader of fun and games for White House occupants, sniggered: "Fear not, I tell myself; the men who emerge as our leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree...
...algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood: "That will be fine. My girls love to dance...