Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO Headlines rarely surround the meetings of the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO nations who often seem to be the talking, as opposed to the military, branch of NATO. But as the foreign ministers gathered in Paris this week, a rare expectancy was in the air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's Giovanni Gronchi-that NATO should broaden its strictly military base and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and economics...
Cars and trucks would be excluded to prevent congestion. Six large parking areas and modern highways are planned to surround the center to allow easy access. Though the district will be a purely pedestrian area, Grulen says that there would rarely be more than a two minute walk to any building in the area from the nearest garage. Underground trucking roads and slow moving carts would eliminate the problems of moving heavy baggage and crates...
...jungle trees and his nights raving endlessly. He lies on a litter of branches, blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods for monkeys to eat. Whenever a police patrol comes near, the 20 loyal henchmen (and teen-age henchwomen) who still surround him hustle Kimathi into a nearby cave and gag him to keep him quiet...
Fernandel's black cassock, appearing in yet another film, might seem to have worn threadbare. But his religious mimicry and lugubrious countenance are still hilarious. The fantastic creatures which surround him, however, and the macabre tone of The Red Inn combine to muffle his easy-going humor...
...longer the tough, miraculous and mysterious sac of muscle will elude man's determination to control it. But one of the most hopeful items in medicine's advancing knowledge is that heart disease and heart attacks need cause far less of the chill dread that used to surround them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol...