Word: engulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their time organizing South Korean Communists, and setting up an elaborate espionage system headed by Anatole Ivanovich Shabshin, who was Russian vice consul in Seoul for eight years before the war. U.S. experts wondered when the Russians would feel that their North Korean puppets were strong enough to engulf South Korea without open Soviet help...
...conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems had formerly lived mixed in together...
...world clamor for an economic embargo against Spain; Author Hughes does not believe them. His opinion is that the Kremlin wants the democracies to leave Franco in power only until the day comes when the Spanish people rise under Communist leadership (not now predominant in the underground) and engulf Army, Church, Falange-and the gateway to the Mediterranean...
...formed a group of westernized Arabs, divided by many rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes a sedentary life, moves at the speed of a slow-motion film. Asked last week if he thought the Assembly...
...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...