Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barkeep of Blémont hardly manages to encompass the round story of the Resistance and Liberation; there was more altruism, idealism and common sense to it than Author Aymé admits. But he does strike a stout blow for the easygoing natural man in his perennial struggle with those to whom "an idea or creed takes precedence over life itself." The rest of Author Aymé's assumption is that the easygoing fellow is doomed from the start...
...fares in terms of the services offered. We think that the mere existence of the MTA greatly enhances the value of the real estate in the Boston area. It is more fitting that the burden of metropolitan transit deficits should fall on the landowners of the individual municipalities which encompass the system. They are the most able to pay, and also gain considerably from its existence...