Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders...
...Etruscan says, "It's true that you Romans are generous and merciful. But you go about your deeds of kindness so ungraciously that you seem more brutal than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books...
...responsibility of approving all proposals for the individual workshops. Meanwhile, it delegated much of its straight administrative work to the Office of Advanced Standing. And upon this office has now devolved the job of maintaining some semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail...
...temperature required for a sustained reaction is, at a minimum, 50 million degrees. No conventional container could withstand such a temperature, so physicists surround the "plasma" of deuterium with a magnetic field whose lines of force are powerful enough to hold it. Then an enormous bolt of electricity is shot into the system to make the plasma particles move rapidly, thereby supplying the necessary heat...
...learned one thing from the appalling atrocities of Hitler: to make every possible effort to prevent such a disaster falling on the people of Israel. For although Hitler was defeated, his disciples in the Middle East still live, and it is they who rule in the Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends. The Germany of today is not the Germany of Hitler, and I refer to the geopolitical transformation that has taken place in Western Europe. It is our duty to adopt all measures to safeguard...