Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright Alsop Jr. is a distinct success. From his column, "Matter of Fact," which appears four times weekly in the New York Herald Tribune and is syndicated in 200 newspapers here and abroad, and from the books and other articles he writes, he receives an income handsome enough to surround himself with the trappings of the luxurious life. These include suits faultlessly hand-tailored on London's Savile Row, and what he calls the "excessive comfort" of a plush bachelor's house on Dumbarton Avenue in Washington's Georgetown. He is respected, if not loved, by federal...
Last Killing. Last week's sale, accomplished under Britain's good offices, came as no surprise to the freewheeling middlemen of Gwadar. In anticipation that Pakistan's customs restrictions would soon surround them, the smugglers had changed their occupation to just plain importers, stuffed their mud-walled warehouses and piled the beachfronts with great dumps of cosmetics, transistor radios, automobile parts, nylons and U.S. cigarettes. The Pakistanis, too pleased at plugging the hole to begrudge Gwadar its last killing, ran up their green and white flag and announced that they hope to develop the place...
...Jews. "We would
remind our people," said a commission report, "since most Jews are such
in name only, that in a spirit of true repentance for our own
mistreatment of the Jew we should take seriously our responsibility for
winning them to Christ, and . . . should be prepared to surround the
converted Jew with the community of Christian love."
...fifth-row pew on the left center side, joined in singing Faith of Our Fathers, 0 God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand and Our Father's God, heard the pastor, the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, offer a special prayer for the President of the U.S.: "Surround him with healing ministries that in the completeness of health and strength he may fulfill his high calling in the service of mankind through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen." And when the President, bundled up in a heavy blue overcoat, left the church after service, he shrugged off the helping hand...
...counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...