Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kilpatrick said that the triumph of integration would result in the loss of those "race values"--the separation of powers and the rights of property, which he called the "first of human rights." "I uphold the rights of a Negro to buy a house from my neighbor," he said, "but I uphold mine to sell my house to whom I please...
...inklings of the deep and dangerous emotions brewing in Latin America came in 1958, when Vice President Richard Nixon was nearly killed under a rain of saliva, stones and sticks during a visit to Caracas. The U.S. was shocked, frightened, incredulous at such fierce hatred from a supposedly Good Neighbor. A few months later, Fidel Castro and his followers swept out of the hills of Oriente province in Cuba and overthrew the cruel regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. No sooner had he taken over than Castro turned dictator himself, began slaughtering those who had opposed him. Even in his scurrilous...
...child can move on to grasp the symbolism of numbers expressed as numerals. He sees that for convenience the first ten symbols may be recombined for numbers greater than nine. He may also learn that each digit (say in 326) has a "place value" ten times that of its neighbor to the right (three hundreds, two tens, six ones). He discovers the wonder of that great ancient invention, zero, the "place holder" that allows infinite expansions (606 would be simply 66 without...
...Sheir's stentorian breathing was under discussion before a judge because snorer Sheir had haled Neighbor Gutwirth into court for repeatedly pounding on the wall to wake him, thereby making "unnecessary noise." Sheir claimed that his snoring, by contrast, is necessary noise. Gutwirth admits it. "What the hell," he says. "Snoring is like breathing, and how in the world are you going to ask somebody to stop giving it the old in-and-out? He can't help his snoring, but at least he can move...
...manner of a man whose wife has backed the ranch wagon into a neighbor's prize hydrangea, Peter Sellers thus sets the tone of Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick's irreverent spectacular about nuclear war. The film is an outrageously brilliant satire-the most original American comedy in years and at the same time a supersonic thriller that should have audiences chomping their fingernails right down to the funny bone...