Word: surrounding
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Vincent shines when she describes the illnesses of others that surround her. She writes of other patients with sympathy, compassion, and an understanding that comes with shared experiences. The book would have worked much better if Vincent forwent the gimmick of three shallow hospital stays for a single illuminating one. Unfortunately, that also would have ruined the book's entire premise...
...next time an "inspirational" speech appears on your movie screen and the surround-sound strings swell - don't worry. They'll make it. They'll win. They'll prevail. They have to. It's Hollywood...
...range. One of the men involved in that raid, 24-year-old Mohamed Dashishle described a distinctly low-tech operation, though organized by men he said had once trained in the Somali coast guard. One of the pirates' "mother ships" spotted the tanker and deployed three small skiffs to surround it. Dashishle told TIME that the pirates simply had to brandish their rocket-propelled grenade launchers to intimidate the tanker. They never even fired a shot or boarded the ship before it got to anchor...
...These accomplishments, along with his reputation as a war hero, will surround McCain’s name in the history books while the mistakes and failures of his latest presidential run will be reduced to footnotes, if not completely forgotten...
...voter. “We wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption explains, so that the bell (and liberty) can only ring when women can vote. Suffragists drove the bell to every county in Pennsylvania, about 4,000 miles in total. Such...