Word: engulfment
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...schools, some of excellent reputation. The Engineering schools, the Medical School, the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the School of Education, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the School of Social Work, the School of Auxiliary Medical Services, and the School of Nursing engulf the College and the College of Liberal Arts for women...
...Triomphe to release hundreds of tricolored balloons carrying the message of bonhomie. A squad of pretty girls scoured Paris looking for outstanding examples of courtesy, and that ancient charmer, Maurice Chevalier himself, cut a symbolic ribbon to release the tide of amiability that promised to engulf the land. Even France's bureaucrats were told to smile, but there was one breed of Frenchmen that not even Ranville's crusaders dared touch. A plan to present a prize to the politest French taxi driver was hastily dropped. Explained Ranville: "We would have wasted too much time looking...
...governments and peoples with whom I had contact," said Dulles. "They want to preserve their freedom and independence. However, patriotism alone is not enough. Small nations cannot easily be self-confident when they are next door to Communist China. Its almost unlimited manpower would easily dominate, and could quickly engulf the entire area were it not restrained by the mutual-security structure which has been erected. But that structure will not hold if it be words alone. Essential ingredients are the deterrent power of the U.S. and willingness to use that power in response to a military challenge. The Chinese...
...Magsaysay stood cheerfully waving to friends and saluting the colors as a 40-minute long parade of helmeted Korean veterans, smartly stepping bands and lumbering Sherman tanks filed by. When the last vehicle had passed, Magsaysay waved the cops aside and the delirious crowd surged forward to engulf the presidential reviewing stand. The photographers' platform swayed like a ship at sea and two cameramen fell off, a microphone stand was trampled into a pretzel. With his people breathing almost down his neck, the new President took his oath of office. From a U.S. warship in the harbor...
...business of language requirements, treated last Saturday in a CRIMSON editorial, has kept the Faculty in a lather for the past fifty years. Some people want all such things abolished. Others prefer to require a little exposure, and a few wish to engulf the hapless undergraduate altogether...