Word: surround
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concentration of power and virtually all significant policy-making in the Presidency would not be viewed by Burns as cause for alarm, because of the tendency of the President to surround himself with concentric rings of decision-makers who form a stable system of collective leadership. But this is not a convincing argument against fears of potential problems in the Presidency if, say, a Barry Gold-were to occupy the White House...
...Khrushchevite revisionists are actively trying to isolate People's China and surround it with a ring of fire." The voice last week was Peking's, speaking through its puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent...
...Operation Harvest Moon's" plan was simple enough. Vietnamese troops were to move deep into Quang Tin as bait. When the Viet Cong struck, waiting U.S. Marine units at Danang, Chu Lai and aboard the aircraft carrier two Juma would helilift in to the rescue, surround, and hopefully wipe out the Viet Cong attackers...
...Saturday's football game, the stands witnessed a particularly tasteless sideline display. Crude lampaoning of the Catholic Church does little to cement relations with the Irish and Italian communities that surround the University...
...water and measured its oxygen. With its findings in hand, the department held a two-week-long hearing for the five states that form Erie's watershed. The proceedings began with a grim conclusion: the lake has been brought to its deathbed by the citizens and industries that surround it; only a massive transfusion of money and effort can save it from becoming a North American Dead...