Word: surroundding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tide of refugees is still rising in the Mekong Delta provinces in the south. Since the North Vietnamese offensive began in late March, an estimated 1,500,000 civilians have been driven and burned from their homes and condemned to live in camps or in the putrid shantytowns that surround every city in South Viet...
...force Whitelaw's hand, masked members of the Ulster Defense Association, a militant Protestant organization, hijacked cars and used them to create a 24-hour barricade around the Protestant Woodvale district of Belfast. Unless Whitelaw sent his troops into the Bogside, declared the U.D.A., the Protestants would surround their areas with permanent barricades also...
...Papen contrived Schleicher's fall and convinced Hindenburg that the way to neutralize Nazi power was to give Hitler the chancellorship and then surround him with conservative ministers. Within a year Schleicher had been killed and Germany belonged to the Führer...
...time, groups here in Boston and throughout the nation are discussing ways to voice the general outrage. Massive civil disobedience in Washington is being considered. We support it. We support all reasoned actions to reverse Nixon's drastic error and bring the war to a close. As the President surrounds North Vietnam, attempting to choke off the liberation movement, it is particularly appropriate for us to surround his buildings and strangle the American war effort...
...fiction and detective stories. It is an honorable enough trade, as massively practiced on Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray by Gerold Frank, who seems to have graduated from his role as a semi-disembodied ghostwriter for actresses. Delving into all the details and mysteries that still surround King's murder, Frank presents evidence, conflicting reports, false leads, rumors, opinions and untruths in more or less the order in which a dispassionate insider-had one existed -might have come upon them himself...