Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched as it is by the blessings of civilizations, knows no moral law but the principle of expediency. Who knows by what infamous intrigue, what ruthless machinations, even this privilege was gained by them...
...pace with the meteoric Hitler. So in 1939 Joseph Stalin, falling back on his peasant cunning, decided to make friends with Hitler in order to postpone the conflict until he was ready for it. By his pact with Germany, Stalin started the war which he knew was bound to engulf him eventually...
...knows that he ... must . . . destroy liberty here in America and make this great nation part of his new Nazi world order. It is clear now to all of us that the onward march of Nazi barbarism must be stopped, or like the relentless tides of the ocean it will engulf the whole world...
...Gigantic boils" of European civilization had been lanced, Bernard Shaw said, "by a million bayonets." World War I ended in revolution in Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary. From Russia the wave of the future threatened to engulf Europe as it later engulfed Germany under the Nazis. The Bolsheviks fighting on six fronts began a systematic terror that bagged some 3,000,000 victims in six years, while hungry ravens forced themselves through the boarded glassless windows of Moscow's Hotel...
...Modern civilization." explains Maritain, "pays dearly today for the past." Marx, Nietzsche, Freud have "unmasked" the rational, optimistic bourgeois citizen. Social disorders threaten to engulf him, mocking his errant faith in Progress and Enlightenment...