Word: surround
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carries an article by Gerard Piel, publisher of the Scientific American, called "The Illusion of Civil Defence," which promises to have a great vogue among those in power and those who think they ought to be. It is well worth reading as an excellent summary of the problems which surround a national shelter program...
...news of the opposition on the theory that "it no longer exists." Though many opposition leaders faced jail sentences for their part in the campaign, few felt it had been in vain. Said one: "We opened a very small window to show the world the lies and treachery that surround...
...depend on the basic concept of viral structure as a nucleic-acid core with a protein overcoat. The coat is a foreign substance to the body it invades, and in the higher animals, including man, the system fights back by making antibodies that gang up on a virus particle, surround it and neutralize it. Unhappily, it takes days or weeks for the body to mobilize its antibody police, so the first viral invasion is likely to succeed and make the invaded victim sick, or may even kill him. But if the body survives such an invasion, it learns to remobilize...
...women who surround Claudia are made real partly through painting extreme characteristics that are easily sustained. But the interplay which fills the plot makes some extremes much more plausible. Claudia's friend Anna, who is engaged to Sandro, has an apparently neurotic desire to get away from him, even though he attracts her. After two hours of Sandro's behavior, it is entirely clear that there is nothing unreasonable about her wish...
...young man swung down a Boston hotel corridor, passed a private dining room, where an Italian wedding reception was going on. But the guests recognized him and swarmed out to surround him. "You shouldn't be applauding me," cried Edward ("Ted") Kennedy. "You should be applauding this lovely young couple about to start a wonderful life together." Then, as his "wedding present to this wonderful couple," Ted Kennedy, 29, sang Sweet Adeline. That was fitting: Sweet Adeline had been the theme song of Ted Kennedy's maternal grandfather, the late John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, who was Boston...