Word: circularized
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...armies were marching, no fleets deploying, no bombs falling when the world's richest colony received its offer of freedom. It was 8 o'clock in the evening of May 16. At that moment, in Room 63 of the circular Council House of New Delhi, the British rulers of India voluntarily went on record before their subjects and the world with a plan-not a weasel-worded promise nor a string-tied offer, but a concrete plan-for the government of an independent, unified India...
Spirit of the Arts. In the Salle Victor Hugo four armchairs and 16 straight chairs were set round the circular, greenclothed table. The ceiling overhead was covered with a painting of a winged nude youth, the Spirit of the Arts, who gazed benevolently on sundry French peasants and workers tilling fields, building houses, digging holes and filling them up again. "Any time the Ministers think things are going badly," said the Luxembourg's curator, "all they need to do is lean back and gaze at the ceiling and realize things could be worse...
Students in the course were asked to appraise Cunningham's articles, starting with that of April 24th, and to analyze them for contents; "Inaccuracies, deliberate and conscious, unfounded assumptions, circular arguments and non-sequiturs, and for emotional language intended to obscure the issue," and then for style; in "Jargon, bombast, 'fine writing' and wordiness...
Recently a woman of 40, who had never taught before, took a schoolteaching job in a West Coast small town. After three weeks of it, she wrote a circular letter to her friends. Excerpts...
Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...