Word: engulfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harkins has at least won a breathing spell. Viet Cong raids and ambushes last month averaged 100 a week, as against 135 the month before. Communist casualties reached 6,000, double those of the Vietnamese army. Within weeks, the rainy season will engulf South Viet Nam in torrential downpours, and the fighting seems certain to diminish even further. During the next six months, therefore, the strategic hamlets will have full opportunity to prove themselves. Says Harkins: "I am an optimist, and I am not going to allow my staff to be pessimistic." Echoes Ambassador Nolting...
...indignation from Welensky because it would have given the blacks considerable advantages in future elections. The second withdrew most of these advantages and was bitterly opposed by Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, whose followers launched a long bout of bloody noting that threatened to engulf the entire territory. To Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling, it was clear that any third formula must come to terms with black demands. In the end, he chose an intricate variation of the first two electoral systems, which increased black chances just enough to allow a clear African majority...
...critical tools--in large part to examine what is being written now. As a whole, the Department has leaned rather to the reverse, to concern itself more and more deeply with the content of the literature itself. In Honors or non-Honors, the effect has often been to engulf the student in as many nice, scholarly distinctions as the teacher feels his Group standing can bear...
When the OAS cavalcade finally came down the road, 1,000 bedraggled people broke through police lines to engulf the cars and cheer the delegates. In Ciudad Trujillo, the biggest opposition group, the Union Civica, called for three days of mourning with a shutdown of all commerce. At night, military police, backed by tanks, patrolled the streets...
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but, a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed...