Word: engulfment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a symbol for us, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed courageous and cooperative, almost superhuman. Socialist men and women stood in the rice fields and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
Vietnam became for us a symbol, proof that socialism could work, that people could master their own destiny. The Vietnamese revolutionaries seemed almost superhuman, courageous and cooperative. Socialist Men and Women in the rice field and the high plateaus, calmly firing rifles skyward as American divebombers screamed down to engulf them in flaming destruction. Vietnam showed us that might can never subdue justice, that a people striving together to be free cannot be stopped short of genocide...
...highest levels of Government. Whatever may yet be revealed about Richard Nixon's complicity, in a sense, he already stands impeached, by a growing consensus, for an appalling failure of responsibility. He selected the men, set the standards, and more than anyone else allowed Watergate's muddy waters to engulf his Administration...
When the 92nd Congress finally adjourned last week, the gap between performance and promise yawned wide enough to engulf not only the lawmakers but the President as well. Of Nixon's six goals, only one had passed as requested: his landmark revenue-sharing bill that will provide $30.2 billion to state and local governments over five years. Two others, the reorganization of the Federal Government and the creation of a national health-insurance program, never even made it to the floor of either the House or Senate. A fourth, welfare reform, was killed three weeks ago, largely because...
...invasion threatened to touch off a bloodbath in Uganda. It could not only engulf the Asians, who have lived in fear since Amin ordered 50,000 of their number holding British citizenship to leave, but could also revive tribal warfare and turn into a protracted border war with Tanzania as well...