Word: engulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week opened a sluice. The Bishop of Killaloe was there to bless the sluice, to murmur a Latin benediction. Soon muddy Shannon water was gurgling slowly into Ireland's biggest ditch, a huge canal-reservoir six miles long, deep enough to engulf a four-story home...
...white man in China last week was King Canute uneasy on his little throne, the foreign concessions, defying the tide of Chinese Nationalism not to engulf him. Throughout Europe disgruntled great men were busy explaining why the China tide is rising...
...same fine commonplace of circumstance upon which to embroideries the curtain rises upon her own levee, which gathers momentum as she gathers momentum, the audience is aware that it being treated to something almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review scenes so excellently staged...
...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
...everyone knows, Signor Mussolini's most robust hate obsession is inspired by a skulking fear that the blond Pan-German tide may some day engulf Italy as the Teutons engulfed Rome, by pouring down through the Brenner Pass. This lowest of the Trans-Alpine highways (4,495 ft.) is now held at its chief strategic points by Italy and constitutes one of her most passionately cherished spoils...