Word: surrounding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer...
...Mary, Churchill and Halifax without raising anybody's hackles, implied that it was all a matter of artistic license, good-naturedly explained that "a sitting figure of Roosevelt would be all wrong in the general arrangement. It would look squat and dumpy alongside the tall trees that will surround...
...created by some of the country's richest profiteers, who made party policy on their well-appointed ranches. The party's and Vargas' immediate aim: victory for his party's candidates in the January elections for state governorships. By controlling local offices, Getulio hoped to surround the Dutra Government, get back political dictatorship of the country...
...surround the H.A.A...
...plus a trio of lengthy appendices listing the instances of Soviet military aggression, treaty-breaking and antidemocratic political chicanery. But the book's heart is in the relatively few pages in which ex-Ambassador Bullitt brusquely presses upon the American public the necessity of taking prompt steps to surround the U.S.S.R. with democratic military forces...