Word: neighbors
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...notably Virginia) lay claim to these same lands, American leaders regarded the Quebec Act as one of the so-called "Intolerable Acts" of the British government. Radicals were also incensed at a new abridgment of civil liberties. New Englanders were fearful of the apparent revival of a powerful Catholic neighbor to the north. (A 19-year-old student at King's College in New York, Alexander Hamilton, even wrote a pamphlet suggesting that the Inquisition would be reborn and might soon be burning heretics at the stake in America...
...Syria, at the same time, there are still some grave problems. By agreeing to and upholding the ceasefire, the Syrians would reduce the chances of a confrontation with both the Palestinians and such radical Arab states as its hostile neighbor Iraq, where suspicious movement of troops last week caused Syria to shift some of its own troops to its eastern border. But Damascus will assuredly not give up its goal of preventing the Arab radicals and the P.L.O. from gaining a free hand in Lebanon and provoking a confrontation with Israel. If there seems any strong danger of that...
...than expected totals in Arkansas (63%), Kentucky (60%) and Tennessee (78%) -which amount to home turf for a Southerner-could not make up for the psychological impact of his defeats last week. He lost Idaho to the state's Democratic Senator, Frank Church, and Nevada to its favorite neighbor, California Governor Jerry Brown...
Caught in a breakfast-nook indiscretion with a local cop, Mary Hartman begs Husband Tom for forgiveness. Meanwhile, Mary's neighbor Loretta tells Bedmate "Baby Boy" she is postponing her country-music career to become a missionary. Suddenly, the traumas are interrupted by a series of boffo bulletins. "Tonight, we'll tell you more about Howard Hughes' sex habits ... We'll chase a runaway baboon at the airport ... and check out wedding bells behind prison walls ... Be informed and have fun, beginning in three minutes on Metro News, MetroNews...
Free Ride. That relationship apparently began in 1964, when Srouji joined the Nashville Banner as a reporter soon after graduating from high school. In 1971 Srouji told a journalist neighbor that the late James Stahlman, president and publisher of the Banner, had encouraged her to turn over her notes on civil rights demonstrations to the FBI. Her contact was Agent Olson, with whom she developed a close personal relationship. Though it is believed she was never paid for being an informant, she has said the FBI underwrote a 1964 trip to Michigan, where she spied on a meeting...