Word: engulfed
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...contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement. We are adopting such measures as will minimize our risk of involvement, but we cannot have complete protection in a world of disorder in which confidence and security have broken down...
...though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...
...turbulent waters engulf city after city along the swollen Ohio River Valley in the worst flood in our history, the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross last night made a special appeal for voluntary contributions from students...
...bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last...
Twenty years later militarism, triumphantly astride a prostrate world, is again threatened in its security. A handful of potential cannon fodder, organized as Future War Veterans, has laid hands on a deadly weapon which threatens to engulf the hitherto invincible strongholds of the professional murderers and their patrioteer subsidiaries...