Word: surround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wriston envisioned the solution and today the "Quadrangle" stands as a monument to the new Brown cohesion. This eight-acre series of muddled dorms and fraternities houses 60 per cent of the undergraduates. A pale-red brick wall and grass moat surround the labyrinth of closely-packed buildings. No one suffers from clostrophobia and everyone finds they have a new centralized social life...
...gates, battled the Russians 13 times in 400 years, and even whipped Winston Churchill when he ordered an attack on the Dardanelles in World War I. Six volunteers applied for every place in the original Turkish contingent for Korea. At the embarkation point the authorities had to surround the force with barbed wire, not to stop desertions but to keep outsiders from rushing in to join them. Thanks to U.S. military aid. the Turks now have Europe's second-largest standing army (No. 1: Russia): 450,000 soldiers equipped with tanks and jet aircraft to button down the free...
...President Eisenhower's most publicized assets, stressed by Republicans and generally conceded by Democrats during the late campaign, was his ability to surround himself with an able team of assistants. Some of this faith was shaken by the President's choices in the first 100 days. But the biggest shock came early this month with the appointment of Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina as one of this country's delegates to the UN General Assembly...
...flank. The New York News's Columnist Ed Sullivan, whose paper objects to his mentioning Winchell by name, blasted a speech Winchell made at a dinner given for him by the Los Angeles Friars Club. Winchell had used the occasion to pummel some of the "ingrates" who surround him, including Drew Pearson. Reported Winchell, reprinting a West Coast newspaper report: " 'WW said [at the Friars' dinner that] Pearson latched onto WW's gimmick of announcing the "Stop the Music" mystery tunes and when WW urged Pearson (via friends) to lay off, Pearson said, "Oh, tell...
Today the field is no longer oriented to the professional musician and specialist. Under department head Randall Thompson, a concerted effort is being made to attract students who are still unsure of their field of concentration. Much of the technical barbed-wire once felt to surround the field has been removed...