Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a wispy grey beard, a high thin voice, and a rambling house in Peiping. There he works behind peeling walls that surround a series of tiny gardens, through which ducks and relatives waddle and wander happily all day long. Ch'ih Pai-shih has 30 relatives living with him, and supports 20 more in Hunan. His household includes ten children of his own, the youngest of whom he hopefully calls...
...Cadillac swung into Manhattan by way of George Washington Bridge; General Dwight Eisenhower said he wanted to "surround the town" instead of making a frontal assault. Threading its way through cheering neighbors and small fry, the car drew up at No. 60 Morningside Drive, the 21-room mansion where Columbia University's presidents live rent-free. Ike and Mamie Eisenhower were home...
...thoughts. His dinner table was set up on a trestle, promptly removed when he had eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks of "setting the table," but in fact his furniture is almost as stable as the four walls which surround it, and much more important. Where once the human hand created the bare minimum, the machine now creates the dressy maximum...
...lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce, and he still wolfs his food. (At royal dinner parties he leaves his harassed guests time for barely one helping.) His physician, who plays the lute, declares that the King...
...Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched in one unruffled stream of water, flowing between smooth, grassy banks, "bearing on its bosom vast flocks of geese, while numerous herds of buffalo are feeding on the plains which surround it." His diary brimmed with these strange, lonely scenes...