Word: encompassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been . . . was yet great in spirit and well-endowed with men who were ready to encompass the earth . . . The Commonwealth bears no resemblance to the empires of the past. It is an entirely new conception ... To that new conception of an equal partnership of nations and races I shall give myself, heart and soul, every day of my life...
...their victims have suffered in the past because their defense has been scattered. Against those who would end free teaching, discussion, and research in the name of finding criminal conspirators, the report constructs a wall of defense for the free exchange of ideas solid and unified enough to encompass all colleges and teachers...
...Christine Jorgensen's homecoming, when she "tossed off a Bloody Mary" [TIME, Feb. 23]: Apparently my colloquial vocabulary has not kept pace with TIME'S; it does not seem to encompass a Bloody Mary...
Gropius makes it clear that he does not want a complete academic tyrant to run the school. He thinks it needs a positive, artistic man, who has a unique theory, broad enough to encompass his students and faculty, giving them room to satisfy their particular fancies and ideas...
...satin cinch for a nine a.m. class. Leather--plain polished saddle leather or colored calf--looks best with sweaters and tweeds, but a girl could conceivably branch out into monetone or even striped or polka-dotted grosgrain and possibly velveteen for daytime wear. After-five and night-life cinches encompass a staggering range of materials, from supple leathers (since sweaters are now correct at any hour) to fur, valvet, fake fur, and anything with sequins...