Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts that Father Thomas O'Neill, the fortuitously-named hero of James Reid's The Offering, must learn all too slowly. For O'Neill--a pro-Irish Nationalist Catholic priest in a pro-Irish Nationalist Catholic parish in Cambridge, Mass.--learning to see through the glamor and romance that surround the struggle in Ulster is an unusually difficult process. Like so many Irish-Americans, O'Neill has been raised by his good Catholic parents to view the agony of Ulster as a sort of holy war against the last vestiges of British heathenism--a holy war that demands support from...
Despite the disappointments that surround this election, Vellucci has perhaps best summed up what the coming year will be like. In response to why he would vote for such a conservative mayor, Vellucci says, "I think he will be a good mayor. It is really only a ceremonial position, and if he gets up there and votes against rent control, who cares. There will still be eight votes in support...
...know if you have seen death." Lobo said, "but I have seen death by war. Not just the death of 10 or 100, but thousands. I have seen soldiers surround a refugee camp and go through killing indiscriminately. I cannot describe it; you cannot imagine it. All of you here, in one moment, dead...
...football stadium that can seat 76,791 Super Bowl fans to a compact configuration for 20,000 basketball rooters. Automated bleachers move on rails from the east side of the dome toward the permanently anchored stands on the west side, while other stands move in from either end to surround the basketball court, bringing the closest seat to within 9 ft. of the action...
...closed 1,700 stores, released 10,000 employees, borrowed heavily to revamp and enlarge the remaining 1,932 supermarkets. He hired 19 new executives, including Grant C. Gentry, who left the flourishing Jewel chain to become A. & P. president. Said Scott: "I have a philosophy that you should surround yourself with people better than yourself...