Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides favoring a strictly limited list of charities, many people feel that more publicity should surround the annual campaign. Undoubtedly, few students know very much about the six charities listed, and rarely do the solicitors have a personal identification with any of the charities. One suggestion is to encourage the six organizations to mail out their own publicity blurbs. Another, perhaps just as effective, is to inform the solicitors more adequately about each charity's aims...
...Serious constitutional and legal complications surround the delegation of presidential powers when the President is too ill to attend to public business. The Constitution says that "in case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President . . ." But the Constitution fails to define "inability," and does not say who shall determine when it starts and when it ceases. The problem arose during the 80 days that President James Garfield lived after he was shot...
...proud dairy country of Normandy, there were other dairymen, jealous perhaps, who cast a suspicious eye on Kramer's skill and Marie's prowess. They studied his methods carefully. One day last week they sent four village gendarmes to surround Marie's pasture. As Kurt started milking, the gendarmes burst from the bushes and shouted. "Hands up!" They had caught...
...reconsideration provides for a 30-day trial period involving selected streets, three of which surround Winthrop and Leverett Houses, and is scheduled for an ordinance meeting within two weeks...
...does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful of army coups in nearby Egypt and Syria, persuaded a bunch of soldiers to surround the royal palace of Al Urdhi at Taiz, a fortified stronghold where the Imam lives with his harem, the royal treasure, an arsenal of modern weapons, and a 150-man guard. From the palace window came a shout: "What is it you want? Tell me what you want," cried the sexagenarian...