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Word: encompassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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Because the University has no uniform dress code to encompass all personnel departments, individual supervisors set codes at their discretion...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Wearing Shorts Deemed Inappropriate | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...extended military metaphor is Solzhenitsyn's own. Scarcely any other image is large enough to encompass the feat of a writer who consistently outwitted and outmaneuvered Nikita Khrushchev, the KGB and the Soviet literary establishment in the pursuit of his mission: to bear witness to the Gulag before his countrymen and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battle Plan of a Rebel | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

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