Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over...
...juggernaut rolling over every sensitivity to its sure triumph . . . The most worrisome aspect of the whole Graham phenomenon, perhaps, has been the failure of nerve in men who know better, the atrophy of critical faculties. Worst of all has been the drive to smother opposition, to engulf critics, to surround criticism. In the good name of unity, Billy and his friends have pressed for a dangerously anti-Protestant uniformity and conformity...
Whenever the Sultan showed signs of obduracy. El Glaoui would summon Berber horsemen down from the hills to surround the Arab towns in ragged but menacing array. In 1951, Juin forced a showdown, demanding that the Sultan condemn the Istiqlal and fire all nationalists from the government. Berber horsemen headed for Rabat, and Juin had a plane waiting at the airport to carry Mohammed V to exile if he balked. Glumly, Mohammed V capitulated; he denounced "violence," but he refused to condemn the Istiqlal. To Juin, it was clear that Mohammed would have...
Waving his manicured forefinger at me, Vag continued. "Wherever you go, the Ivy League rites of spring surround you. The sight would be merely distastefully humorous if it were not for the sheer numbers of these primitive people. I shall never dabble in such earthy totems of the tribe...
...Bartlesville scheme will be watched closely from Washington, Manhattan and Hollywood. Says Shapp: "This will make it possible for exhibitors to reach an audience they have never before reached. By electronic means, the walls of the conventional theater are pushed outward to surround the entire city and make it a giant theater." If it works as well as surveys suggest it will, the company expects it to spread across the country and to cover special sport events, opera and live plays as well as movies...