Word: surround
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dennis the Menace is syndicated in 112 U.S. newspapers and in 52 others all over the world. Dennis, who is not intimidated by his view of the world between a clutter of long adult legs, is the constant winner in his never-ending war with the exasperated adults who surround him. For example, he can easily undo both his mother and her tea guest by standing between them with a fur coat draped over his arms and blurting out: "I showed Mrs. Taylor your new fur coat, Mom, but she didn't turn green like you said she would...
...Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed to regain their lost honors, and the land that was soon...
...death, George Santayana '86 is a somewhat ambiguous figure, surround by the usual complement of myth and legend...
...Hoover inner circle, mostly old-guard Republicans, call him "the Chief" and surround him with veneration. Over powwows in his living room, the Chief presides with avuncular dignity. He does not monopolize the conversation but he dominates it, and when he speaks, no one interrupts him. No one slaps the Chief on the back, and no one tells him risque stories. The Chief's own humor is intellectual. He rarely laughs. He twinkles...
Remedy. What should the Republicans propose to remedy the situation? Said Taft: There is only one safe policy, to which all other policies must be incidental -"the building of an Air Force sufficiently large to control the air over this country, over the oceans which surround this continent, and able to deliver atom, bombs on Russian cities and manufacturing plants...