Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...association's account, the cow was not the culprit. The guilty party was a one-legged neighbor of Mrs. O'Leary, Dennis ("Peg Leg") Sullivan, who went to the O'Leary barn for a nightcap, lit his pipe and ignited the hay. As he tried to flee, his peg leg stuck in a floor crack. He discarded it and hobbled to safety by clinging...
...plot is often, unfortunately, simplistic. A little boy's father leaves home to join the N.L.F. His mother dies soon afterward of an infected leg, and Hung and his little sister Xuan are left orphans of the war. A neighbor appropriates the money left for the children's care and mistreats them. So Hung and Xuan leave the neighbor's house for Saigon, and after a multitude of hardships are finally taken in hand by a kindly nurse. Xuan is placed in a children's clinic; Hung gets a mining job and visits his sister every...
There can be small comfort for Washington in the fact that Bolivia's new military government last week professed its pro-American feelings. Thirty-eight years after Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy, 18 years after Dwight Eisenhower's Good Partnership, and a decade after the start of John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, the best that can be said for U.S. diplomacy is that Washington seems finally to have learned not to interfere in Latin American affairs. Now Washington faces a task that demands far more sophistication-maintaining forbearance, and even extending...
...feminist groups and the press; President Joaquin Balaguer vetoed the original bill. But once leading legislators were assured of a share of the legal business, the measure was passed in June over Balaguer's veto. Already, Haiti has been forced to reduce its price to compete with its neighbor's figure. The package fee, which varies somewhat depending on the case, is divided among the stateside lawyer, the Caribbean lawyer, and government agencies including the court...
Twilight Zone. Franco apparently intends to preside over the coronation and then retire to private life. At 78, he is in full possession of his faculties, but he insists privately that he does not want to go out as did his neighbor in Portugal, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who suffered a stroke and lived his last two years in a twilight zone of helpless incomprehension. More important, Franco, a lifelong monarchist, knows that in Spain there is no great affection for the crown. He also knows that many of his associates, including his probable choice for Prime Minister, Vice President...