Word: surround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell team that will bid for its first victory tomorrow has conceded much of its speed to the medical department. Start quarterback Bill DeGraaf's status is still questionable and Art Sosenko will probably start. Certain doubts and a good deal of tape surround the ribs of both fullback Guy Bedrossian and halfback Dick Meade, while tackle Jim Van Buren will watch from the sidelines. This, plus the pre-season loss of star end Stan Intihar and Bruce Brenner leave Coach Lefty James with a good starting team, but far from the one which won the Ivy title last year...
...concurs in the decision by its special board? For the fact remains that Dr. Oppenheimer is a walking repository of highly classified security information. Should we put him in a file marked "extra special top secret?" Or shall we place his brain in a box . . . and surround it by FBI guards night...
...tomorrow's conditions are poor on Lake Mendota, the race can be run a mile away on the lee shore of Lake Monona, one of three lakes which surround Madison. Every effort, however, will be made to hold the duel on the regular course which runs eastward along the University shoreline, past the Boat House and Fraternity-Sorority Row, and affords spectators an excellent view...
...quite all alone, it seemed: "I ask the people to be there to mark their remembrance of what was done to save the independence of France, which they intend to preserve. I ask the veterans of both wars and of Indo-China to surround the monument. The garrison of Paris will have to be there for honors and the sounding of trumpets, the glorious police of Paris to keep order. All of us ... will speak not a single word, will utter not a single cry. Above the calm of this immense silence will float the soul of France...
...reason to believe, however, that the radioactive aftereffect of the hydrogen bomb cannot be increased, if thai is what the designers want to do. First step would be the addition of an ingredient that yields free neutrons (L17 might be a good one). Next step would be to surround the bomb with 3 casing of an element that absorbs neutrons and becomes radioactive. Such a doctored H-bomb might poison a whole country...