Word: engulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge green waves, lashed by some abysmal fury, reared up and blotted the sky from view. They seemed about to crash into the quiet, pleasant room, threatening to shatter the fragile decor, engulf the politely conversing statesmen...
...world has learned all too well, the time to quell rambunctious Fascists is before they have attained the military strengh to enable them to engulf peace loving nations. The opportunity for such action will be presented when the United Nations General Assembly meets on October 23. The Spanish problem is certain to be on the agenda. Perhaps nothing more than a dearth of fresh air will result from these deliberations; but if the U.N. passes up this chance to exert moral, economic, or military pressure upon the only remaining Fascist axis, it will have wasted its most convenient opportunity...
Journey to Moscow. When war began to engulf the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt called on Harriman's services more & more, finally sent him to London to coordinate the vast operations of Lend-Lease. In October 1943, after months of harrying toil and travel, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Russia...
...fairy tale The Snow Queen") by tramping Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...