Word: surround
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from mind-obliterating drugs are compellingly chronicled. Their subsequent prison break is skillful skulduggery, handled in the finest tradition of cinema suspense. Director Phil (Hell to Eternity) Karlson and Star-Producer Widmark have managed to take a script that is awash in cliches, plunge it into an authentic setting, surround it with sound historical and technical data, and photograph it with an admirable tightness and edgy excitement...
Perhaps it is silly to try to understand the complex and sophisticated problems which surround the management of Harvard grounds and buildings. The latest ingenious scheme emerged last week in the context of the age-old struggle between pigeons and buildings...
...commission must proclaim a cease-fire before the 14-power conference begins. It wants no repetition of the Diem Bien Phu disaster: the Geneva Conference in '54 started before the contending armies had agreed to cease fire, and the Communists took advantage of the lull to attack and surround the French fortress. The Russians have stepped up supply shipments to Northern Laos in the past few days, making the case-fire all the more important. And, since there is only light fighting at the present, despite rumors of a new rebel offensive, the cease-fire is still relatively easy...
Bing & Crowbar. Both outfits are under the influence of the growing group of extreme leftists who now surround Nkrumah, pressuring the President toward accepting closer relations with Russia and imposing a Marxist stamp on Ghana's entire economy. "Long live the workers' solidarity. Down with imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and exploitation of labor," cried an article in a recent issue of B.A.A.'s widely distributed Voice of Africa. Its author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle...
...hands, the country is safe." He has preserved the body of his late father in formaldehyde for the past 17 months in a gilded sandalwood urn at the entrance to the palace in the royal capital of Luangprabang, on the ground that the powerful phis (spirits) that surround the corpse of a king will ward off all invaders...