Word: girt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle-girt Vientiane last week, the U.N. subcommittee set up to investigate Communist aggression in Laos was winding up its work. This week the members of the U.N. team are expected to fly back to Manhattan to present their findings to the Security Council...
...Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task...
...memento ("that piece of ice meant more to him than all the rank . . . and fame that have been showered upon him"). In its way, it was a not unfitting symbolic link in man's chain of progress from the ice age to the undersea conquest of the ice-girt Pole...
Send me men girt for the combat...
...branch has just been cut and the sap is running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would...