Word: surround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the problem of White House-Congress relations−but he goes much beyond that. He hurts the nation's good name with its allies. He muddies the important Communist issue. He distracts the Government and the country from the grave perils and golden opportunities that surround...
...Sensing" the Job. The scene in postwar France, recalled last week by an officer who was there, illustrates a basic personality trait with which Eisenhower's staff officers in SHAPE in World War II also were familiar. Eisenhower is a slow starter. He likes to surround a problem, to watch, listen, absorb and learn all he can. Then he acts decisively, firmly. This was his method of operation in planning the invasions of North Africa and Normandy. It was his technique in the presidential campaign last year. He now recalls, with understandable enjoyment, the much-quoted August 1952 Scripps...
...summer, the executions began. On June 10, the first witch was hanged on Salem's Gallows Hill. In July, five went to their deaths on the gallows, in August five more, and on a single day in September, eight men and women were hanged. Contrary to the legends which surround the trials, no witch was ever burned in Massachusetts. The only deviation from the hanging procedure same in the case of an 81-year-old man, Giles Cory. Arraigned on witchcraft charges before the Salem court, Cory steadfastly refused to answer any of the judges questions, even disregarding their demand...
...Fire White without explanation; 2) Ask him to resign without explanation; 3) Allow him to take the new post, while the Attorney General continued the investigation and the Treasury Secretary supervised the appointment of reliable men around White. Truman adopted the last alternative, but White somehow was permitted to surround himself with suspected Communists...
...Crimson hasn't beaten Yale in the Bowl since 1941; the oddsmakers give seven points that the Elis will win today; certain doubts surround the right arm of Captain Dick Clasby. But this is the seventieth anniversary of a rivalry which has no real favorites, and over 60,000 people should jam the Bowl at 1:30 p.m., many of them hoping to see the strongest Harvard team in six years display the sustained scoring power which it has flashed only occasionally this year...