Word: surroundding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme-the search for direction and identity-through a superbly tempered style and sheer force of feeling. His hero (Stanislaw Latallo) is a student of science who is baffled and intimidated by the intricacies of the natural order, stalled by doubt and fear of the mysteries that not only surround him but drive...
...French authorities rushed heavily armed special police to surround the two-story embassy in Paris' Passy district, the gunmen announced that they would release their hostages only if Jordan would free Abu Daud, a former high-ranking leader of Al-Fatah who is serving a life sentence in a Jordanian prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime. Jordan categorically refused.* The gunmen then temporarily shelved their insistence on Abu Daud's release and asked instead for a plane and crew to fly them to an Arab capital - preferably Algiers, where the Summit Conference...
...tunnels at Europa Center objects in glass cases surround one: rocks and jewels in a shop--crystal, metal, wood, leather, fur--objects which could possess all the properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give...
...Kendall Square has other neighbors--old, grimy industrial plants once stood on the two sites and many still surround it with their smokestacks, dirty brick walls, dustencrusted windows, and blue collar jobs...
...occupation entered its third week, life in the village settled down to an idyllic pace. Indians lounged outside and in the trading post, or built bunkers into the hills that surround Wounded Knee. But the armed personnel carriers that stared down on the embattled village provided a constant reminder that the Federal government waited two miles down Big Foot Trail...