Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inchon from the sea was General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter to be with them. Recalls Army General Clark Ruffner: "When our troops were heading up toward the Yalu we had lots of VIPs. But when we got hit by those seven Chinese divisions . . . the only...
...Many of these will never be called if present deferment policies are continued; they are to all intents and purposes exempt. As a consequence, if a global war should engulf us, we would have to fight the war with the veterans of World War II or those who have served since Korea; we have no trained reserves other than veterans...
When, in 1951, he voted to cut foreign aid by $350 million, Kennedy had just returned from a trip to Europe. Speaking of what he had seen, he said: "If Europe is to be saved, Europe must commence to make sacrifices . . . commensurate with the danger that threatens to engulf her . . . The plain and brutal fact today is that Europe is not making these sacrifices . . . her military budgets in terms of their proportion of the national income are far below those that we propose for ourselves. Her draft of manpower is less severe than what we suggest should govern us here...
...same deterioration as those be tween Catholics and Protestants, said Bernstein. But "underlying tensions" do manifest themselves. His advice to Jews: "Do not live in a fool's paradise. Do not take any satisfaction from the current Catholic-Protestant frictions ... A poisoned atmosphere of divisiveness and distrust will engulf...
What has taken away the capacity for indignation that used to rise like a mighty wave and engulf the corruptors-the corruptors of public office, of business, of youth, of sports...