Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in front of the picture window in the spacious living room of his wood and brick ranch house staring out at acres of corn stunted by drought. When the Diehls and eight other local farm families met with Carter next morning over coffee and rolls baked by a neighbor, the costly effects of central Iowa's drought were on all their minds. The group also discussed federal disaster assistance for farmers-Diehl himself will be eligible for payments this year-and the Administration's proposed feed-grains set-aside program...
...treaty, which gradually cedes U.S. control over the waterway to Panama by the year 2000, is nothing if not reasonable and conciliatory. It is a common-sensical solution to a nagging, decades-old problem-one that has damaged U.S. relations not with an enemy but with a relatively good neighbor. Yet opposition has grown so intense that while the treaty is expected to be approved by a plebiscite in Panama this week, it is still in considerable trouble in the U.S. Senate...
...harsh times may have persuaded farmers, if not to love their neighbor, at least to work with him to regain the prosperity that was so suddenly and cruelly snatched from them...
...death with a gun they had found in the house, grabbed $415 in cash and made their getaway in the victim's 1972 Buick. Four days later Ronald Zamora, 15, confessed to police that he had killed Mrs. Haggart, who also happened to be his next-door neighbor. This week Zamora is facing a Miami jury-his accomplice will be tried separately -charged with first-degree murder, burglary, robbery and possession of a firearm while committing a felony...
...first there reigns a state of newborn innocence, snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm...