Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...star is Betelgeuse, a so-called red giant so large that it could encompass the inner solar system almost all the way out to the orbit of Jupiter. On a clear night last March, Astronomers Roger Lynds, Jack Harvey and Peter Worden took some 40 photographs of Betelgeuse, exposing each of the plates to the star's light for less than one-hundredth of a second...
...HARKIN. Another conqueror of a senior Republican, Harkin, 34, upset Iowa's Scherle in a district made more liberal in 1971 by new lines that encompass Iowa State University in Ames. A former Navy pilot in Viet Nam, Harkin drew national attention in 1971 when, as an assistant to a House committee, he released photographs of the "tiger cage" treatment of political prisoners in South Viet Nam. Formerly a legal-aid lawyer, Harkin successfully employed an unusual campaign tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work...
...Unity. Two of the commandments encompass the Law itself: a duty to study the Torah-Jewish teaching -and to keep Torah books (the Pentateuch, the Psalms and the Jewish prayer book) in the home. A third commands Jews to give charity, and as a reminder the Lubavitchers pass out charity boxes to be kept and filled in the home. A fourth commandment requires a householder to keep on each doorpost (except that of the bathroom) a mezuzah -a small container holding a handwritten parchment with a scriptural passage on the unity...
...peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could encompass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. America will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious freedom...
...inadequate term Watergate has come to encompass all the wrongdoing of which Richard Nixon and other members of his Administration stand accused-and in many cases convicted-including the politicization of federal agencies, misuse of federal funds for private purposes, attempted bribery by milk producers, misprision of felony, subornation of perjury, obstruction of justice. This catalogue of crimes and misdeeds did not begin with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but were it not for that bungled burglary and the subsequent coverup, most or all of the offenses might have gone unnoticed and unpunished. Why the President...