Word: arounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had ruled out private traders as buyers and shippers of grain for Europe (TIME, Nov. 29), took another detour around middlemen last week. From now on, it will bypass many commercial bankers, who have been the agents for the distribution of over $1 billion in ECA funds...
From there on, complications and cliches roll up like thunderheads around a low-pressure area. After some improbable, fast moving action, including a running gunfight through a Central American fiesta, Taylor gets his three men, as well as Ava, and salvages a little tarnished honor...
...energy into corps of servants, stained-glass heraldic windows, horses, racing-cars, motorcycles and miniature railroads. His children were so terrified of him that once when his little daughter was prattling innocently about "the fertility of rabbits" she noticed one of her father's blue eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles...
...assorted hucksters who hover around Mem Hall exits to bargain for signatures, money, and political souls of fatigued registrants will be fewer than the number present at fall Term Registration, but they'll be there...
Lillio's map was the result of 10 years of borrowing around archives and delving into ancient land deeds. But Pitman still needed to know just how large these buildings were, what colors they were painted, what the landscaping locked like and even the kinds of fences that had been built--all of it information which seemed impossible to obtain...