Word: engulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early to say," Panetta said, but then he went ahead and said...
...sits on his terrace and watches an array of computer-controlled fountains dance to the easy-listening melodies from his sound system, with an officer in camouflage fatigues standing at attention nearby, Mobutu shows no signs of fearing the turmoil that threatens to engulf him. "I have rendered my country and people an enormous service," he says, beckoning to a servant who rushes up with an iced Baccarat tumbler of Coca-Cola. "They owe me everything." Then why not hold elections? "I plan to. I would win them." Then he leans back in his gold thronelike chair, staring into...
While America rebuilds at home, we will notshrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize theopportunities, of this new world. Together withour friends and allies, we will work to shapechange, lest it engulf...
...things may follow. If it were only Georgia, it would not be disastrous for the whole world. It is impossible to say how it will take place, because it will happen spontaneously, and it will not be a long process. It may start in one republic and immediately engulf the others...
When war first broke out in Croatia a year ago, Americans dismissed the senseless violence with a regretful tut-tut, while Europeans clung to the hope that people would soon come to their senses. But as the fighting has spread south and east, igniting Bosnia-Herzegovina and threatening to engulf other independence-minded regions of the former Yugoslavia, hope has evaporated that sanity will prevail. The toll is terrible: more than 12,000 people dead, tens of thousands missing and wounded, 1.5 million men, women and children forced to flee their homes. Those numbers only begin to hint...