Word: surround
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour is 1 a.m. . . . I hear shouts of 'death to the Americans in the streets. . . . Six hundred or maybe 1,000 strong, the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino surround the Americans under Major Gilbert Hatfield and attack from all sides. . . . The fighting becomes general. . . . Our constabulary fight bravely in the Municipal Park. . . . American sharpshooters keep the corners clear. ... A Browning and two Lewis guns rake the yard. . . . Anyone so imprudent as to cross meets death...
...Admiral David Foote Sellers, U. S. N., to succeed Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer as commander of the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. Immediately upon landing, Rear Admiral Sellers was informed by Brigadier General Feland that numerous detachments of U. S. marines were maneuvering with intent to surround and subdue the forces of General Sandino...
...Insull's plan was quite simple. The new opera site abuts on broad Wacker Drive, on Market between Washington and Madison streets. It is a convenient neighborhood for business offices and is increasing rapidly in beauty. Simply surround and cap your opera auditorium and dressing-rooms with 22 stories of offices priced in proportion to the cultivated air of the building, and the rents from brokers, lawyers, insurance men, advertising agents, etc. will help audiences pay for expensive scenery, costumes, batons, temperaments, vocal chords...
...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...
They will again argue that by revealing the most intimate details they are making the men they treat more human, that they bring back a sense of balance, that they tear away the clouds of sanctified hokum which still surround such a figure as "The Martyr President" Harding, who died of eating crab-meat out of season to the end that all who exploited him Doheny, Fall, Sinclair, et al, should not be punished but should have everlasting freedom from justice...