Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...splashed over the walls and floors. In the middle, in the big empty space, people are dancing. From up above them seem one pulsating mass--a motley, throbbing protoplasm that expands and contracts in rhythm to the newest disco song. As the music reaches fever pitch, it threatens to engulf the upper mezzanines, slide out to the hallway, push itself out the door and burst smokily all over Lansdowne Street...
...embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms of a debilitating racial war between black-and white-ruled regimes that could engulf southern Africa. The possibility that Rhodesia would become the cockpit of Africa's next violent conflict grew steadily stronger...
...Smith's white racist regime in Rhodesia. From London, Washington, Pretoria and several capitals of black Africa, the message to Salisbury last week was the same: make a peaceful settlement now for early black majority rule or face a bitter "war of liberation" by blacks that could engulf all of southern Africa...
Beyond the immediate objectives of the hookers' union are some long-range attitudinal and political goals. COYOTE's ultimate aim is the decriminalization of prostitution--not its legalization. The existing laws which make prostitution a crime do not deter a prostitute from plying her trade; instead, they engulf the hooker in a dangerous, de-humanizing trap which ensnares her more deeply in crime. Illegality creates the necessity for pimps and opens the arena to organized crime...
...problem unique among American municipalities. Many of its most affluent commuters live in Connecticut and New Jersey and do not pay their fair share of taxes for the city's upkeep. They are determined to keep it at a distance; yet its problems continue to spread and will ultimately engulf them...