Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most living saints, activists or no, of course do get down on their knees and pray, some for hours a day. In the traditional concept of sainthood, in fact, prayer is an essential condition of sanctity, the key to the deeds that surround it. Most of today's saintly people would agree that the concept has not changed...
DESPITE ALL THE GOOD that Harvard has said the plant will offer to the Mission Hill residents who surround the plant's site, such as the two-year construction jobs, and a housing project that it claims could not be built without the plant, some residents believe that the power plant will sound the area's death knell...
...McPhee writes about things that are generally as sedate as his style--tennis, Scotch whiskey, conservation--and that are diversions, not threats, for the upper-middle class, educated Easterners who make up his audience. His subject matter is often identical with the subject matter of the lush advertisements that surround his New Yorker articles. His articles are peopled with abundant heroes and few villains; his characters are proof that all over the world there are nice people who are friendly and unprepossessing and do good things. Ambition and greed and complexity and tragedy play little part in McPhee's reassuring...
...letters Eliot's instructions about the buildings. In any event, the money was obtained, and the five buildings were built--in the original gray Dorset marble, as it turned out. They are now the centerpiece of the Med School, solemnly dominating the grassy central quadrangle that they surround...
...fiasco were General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, the army chief of staff, and his brother-in-law General Alejandro Soils Rosera, head of the national war college. Their muzzy plot−"it must have been brewed before cocktails and executed after," as one foreign diplomat put it−was to surround the national palace in Quito and force the resignation of roly-poly President Rodriguez (known informally to his countrymen as el Bombita, or the little balloon), who has been Ecuador's benign, reformist dictator since leading a successful military coup in 1972. Setting up headquarters in a funeral parlor...