Word: engulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have missed an issue of your timely magazine, and may thus seem ignorant of recent developments, but what has happened to Hawaii? Has it been secretly anschlussed by Japan? Have the ocean waves risen to engulf it-Navy, pineapples, Kalaupapa leper settlement and all? Or are your editors ignorant of the fact that the Organic Act declares Hawaii to be an American Territory, "an integral part...
...Japanese were waiting for Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater than any they had enjoyed in the whole...
...more bitter than the cold was a glacial realization which last week for the first time crushed Europe's capitals, big and small: the Continent was on the brink of a general war which might engulf even the most unwilling neutrals. Two wars-Allies v. Germany, Finland v. Russia-seemed dangerously close to merging and swallowing all of Scandinavia...