Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rise & Fall. More than once in the next 300 years, the Poles marched as far as Kiev; more than once men from the East, notably the Tatars, swept into Poland. Casimir the Great was the first Pole to encompass a large block of non-Poles (Ruthenians) in his domains. His great-niece, Jadwiga, married Jagiello of Lithuania in 1386. The union of the two kingdoms prospered for almost exactly 300 years; the tide did not turn until 1667 (see map). Said Ivan III of Muscovy, when Poland's expansion was in full flower: between Russians and Poles, there...
...slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
...long arms of Total War Mobilization have yet to encompass public educational problem number one. TWM's right arm, the War Manpower Commission, apparently is oblivious to the fact that there is a critical shortage of teachers. Congress, on the other hand, recognizes the fact, but so far has done nothing. Meanwhile, 39,000 teachers have either enlisted or have been drafted; another 37,000 have stopped teaching to accept more highly paid positions in private industry...
...mass demonstrations of student solidarity behind the war effort, colleges and universities in all of the United Nations will celebrate International Students Day. Specifically commemorating the massacre of a group of Czech students in 1939, today's event will encompass the entire war effort in its activities...
...still in a position to absorb many doctrines, such as socialism, without necessarily destroying itself, because it still remains the only mode of life and the only mechanism of society sufficiently broad as far as its philosophical basis is concerned, and sufficiently vague as to its outlines, to encompass a vast number of contradictions." He feels that "democracy is the only form of Government . . . strong enough . . . to avoid the 'grim horrors of revolution...