Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving into a fourth year of systematic bombing of China's neighbor and ally, North Vietnam. Clearly no discussion of our response to revolution in Asia, Mr. Chairman, can avoid that matter of most urgent concern to us all, the war in Vietnam...
...their students. Instructors play on what they call "the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses syndrome." For instance, Farmer A learns to read so that he can learn how to use the bag of fertilizer the government has provided. The fertilizer doubles the autumn crop. Farmer B sees that his neighbor is getting more fruits for the same amount of labor. Farmer B determines he will learn how to read. The lesson is simple, the UN's experts conclude: give a man some reason to learn, and he will not only learn but remember...
Ergo consists of a series of episodic developments in the rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
When Jacqueline Kennedy comes to Cambridge, the last vestige of magisterial hauteur disappears. "He fawns over her like a cocker spaniel," harrumphs a neighbor. "He bounds out onto the lawn wreathed in smiles, escorts her into the house as though she were made of eggs, and hovers...
Except of course the little neighbor boy who carried him to rest...