Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that defeat of the amendment would "engulf us in the blackness of indescribable chaos ... A vote for amendment is a vote against government by the N.A.A.C.P. in Virginia...
...telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime of political parties, has pursued a disastrous course . . . Today, in the face of the troubles that again engulf the country, it should be known that I am ready to take over the powers of the republic...
Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home...
...this monstrous juggernaut rolling over every sensitivity to its sure triumph . . . The most worrisome aspect of the whole Graham phenomenon, perhaps, has been the failure of nerve in men who know better, the atrophy of critical faculties. Worst of all has been the drive to smother opposition, to engulf critics, to surround criticism. In the good name of unity, Billy and his friends have pressed for a dangerously anti-Protestant uniformity and conformity...
...brooding line is repeated again and again only to appear arbitrary, in expression of similarly histrionics. Beckmann creates and maintains his impact with far greatr lucidity. "The People, Cafe" and "Society, 1915," coherently relate a tale of human confusion and shock, a state of mind which, fortunately, does not engulf the artist despite his intensity of conviction...