Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shade too formally, some Bostonians called him "the Cardinal of Charity." That he was; and for it, both Catholics and non-Catholics in the U.S. honored Cushing with an affection exceeded only by their love for Pope John XXIII. The affection followed him everywhere, but nowhere did it surround him more warmly than on his visit to the annual Christmas party at St. Coletta's, an institution for "exceptional" children he founded in Hanover, Mass...
Like an old fighter, Sonny Brown struts across the green grass at Tehachapi, grinning in the morning sun behind bopster shades. A blue knit cap rides his head like a fez. Sonny always wears the cap; it sets him apart from the retinue of convicts who surround...
...number of these stories are haunted by people who have difficulty feeling as real as the objects that surround them. They feel the emotion of emotion's lack, a heaviness that Miss Oates conveys with the same compassionate talent that helped make her novel Them last year's National Book Award winner...
...City can't tear down the buildings with families living in them, and it can't evict the families, because every time they try, thousands of people surround the buildings to protect the new residents. The project has established a representative community council to make decisions, and cultural education programs for the kids, including classes in black and Puerto Rican history and a cultural resource center...
...pround-to-air missiles, manned by 3.500 to 5.000 Soviet technicians. Six sites already surround the harbor of Alexandria. Six other sites encircle Cairo, and four more are a short distance away at Cairo West, where Russian forces have established their headquarters in a for mer British base. Four clusters of SA-3s protect the Aswan High Dam, two more are believed to be at Baltim on the Mediterranean coast, and others are at the Russian bases at Mansura and Inshahs. The number of SA3 sites, each with eight missiles and 100 to 150 men, may eventually reach about...