Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist representative of Zlin in the Czech Parliament. His only previous shoemaking experience was as manager of exports to Turkey for Bata during the war. But his Communist connections came in handy in wangling materials and machines from countries dominated by Russia. And Holy was smart enough to surround himself with old Bata employes...
Bella Vista was named by an optimist. The outlook from the white cubical villa, surmounted by four grotesque chimneys, is gloomy. Ancient, vine-tangled trees surround it like careless sentinels. The great cast-iron gate is rusty...
...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...flew to Manila and marveled again: as the plane approached the city, the pilot circled over the hundreds of ships in the harbor, the vast supply dumps, the great runways at Nichols Field. When the plane landed, a crowd which had waited for hours burst past MPs to surround its famous passenger...
...Wavell doffed his uniform, was made a peer and Viceroy of India. The soldier became the proconsul. But he was unlike any other proconsul who had ever been seen in India. Hitherto it had been deemed a necessity to surround the Viceregal office with a pomp and pageantry that would dazzle even India's dazzling princes. Wavell's predecessor, Lord Linlithgow, a thrifty Scot, used to travel around India in a luxurious, cream-colored train because "Indians are impressed by these things." The new Viceroy arrived in India in a rumpled lounge suit. Instead of taking the royal...