Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southwestern shore of Cape Cod. After another two centuries, the state of Massachusetts decided to turn the reservation into a township, and the Indians naively sold off their land, bit by bit. Today 500 Wampanoag are still living in Mashpee (total pop. 2,500), but new housing developments now surround the salt marshes and ponds that the Indians once raked for scallops and quahogs. Mashpee's expensive ocean-front property is dotted with signs that shout PRIVATE, KEEP OUT! Standing on a windswept bluff above a beach road blockaded by boulders, Russell Peters, 47, president of the Mashpee Wampanoag...
...thousands of candidates who sweated blood for months, and years, and especially for the men who sought the presidency in this election year, the mysterious, often incomprehensible process on election day has passed final judgment. Despite the talk of packaged candidates, enormous egos and the surreal stellar auroras that surround modern candidates and campaigns, it is the ultimate importance of that single day balanced against vast amounts of time, money and effort that condemns the Fords and Carters and those who surround them to their special unreality...
...Ford's great weaknesses is a tendency to surround himself with men who do not have the traditional passion for anonymity so necessary for effective service in the White House. Feuds between bickering staffers have afflicted his Administration from the beginning, contributing to an impression of general disarray...
Some civil rights spokesmen were quick to hail the decision as a landmark in the long fight to get the suburbs to share in solving the problems of the cities they surround. Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the finding "historic, bold and necessary to halt the constitutional movement in this country toward apartheid. " But other leaders of minorities, noting the extremely limited nature of the precedent and knowing the long court battles that almost certainly lay ahead, were much more guarded. "I'm pleased...
...majority rule. There the guerrillas' anonymous 18-member high command sees that they are issued arms (usually Chinese-made AK-47 automatic rifles) and given basic training by Chinese instructors. Mozambique veterans of the decade-long guerrilla war against Portugal show them how to plant mines, lay ambushes, surround and storm farmhouses. Some 1,000 cadres have slipped back across the border to carry out terrorist raids within Rhodesia...