Word: engulfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threat. Louisianans were too weary to panic when Army engineers reported that a barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify the polluted water.) The river was closed to shipping for 40 miles below Baton Rouge while the Army brought in 116,000 gas masks, and a flotilla of Navy and Coast Guard ships searched for the barge. When divers finally found it after five days, its chlorine tanks were intact...
Sherbet-Soft Colors. The problem is that Louis and Noland are pioneer explorers who need vast spaces to give their quest a sense of achievement. Even the best tapestry would be ridiculous as a doily, and their Cinemascopic canvases only achieve their effect when they engulf the viewer's vision. Their works often run from baseboard to ceiling and as wide as 18 ft. This large format must impose itself like a looming display of northern lights to achieve a scale that inflames the imagination...
Ironically, Tshombe came home on invitation of his onetime archenemy, Premier Cyrille Adoula, whose government now needs all the help it can get. Adoula's inept 35,000-man army has proved itself incapable of suppressing Communist-encouraged rebellions that already engulf three provinces and are spreading even farther. To many, it seemed that his only hope was reconciliation with the dissident elements that rack the land. Adoula apparently agreed, however reluctantly. As a trial balloon, he permitted his secretary-general to call openly for the liberation of long-imprisoned Leftist Antoine Gizenga, and amnesty for Rightist Albert Kalonji...
...Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange closed the exchange shortly after 2 p.m., as a wave of selling started to engulf the market. The stock market reacted with a violent downturn to the news of the President's death...
Stilts & Filler. Two packs of savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly...