Word: engulfs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...news confrontations" on the lawns of wealthy Reagan backers. Painting Reagan as the servant of vested California interests, accusing him of profiteering to the tune of $1,000,000 in a private real estate transaction, Unruh of late has been making waves, none of them powerful enough to engulf the popular Governor...
Facing Mecca The gun carriage had hardly gone 15 yards onto El Tahrir Bridge when the crowd swept from the Nile's banks to engulf it. The dignitaries behind it were supposed to march nearly a mile to the headquarters of the Arab Socialist Union and there make way for a "popular funeral," in which the common people would escort Nasser's body to the burial mosque. The officials could scarcely move at all. Police tried un successfully to beat back the crowds with braided whips and bamboo sticks...
...remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing the city's stately tamarind trees. Sidewalks are crowded with vendors. Alleys are scenes of chaos, as dogs, children and chickens scurry amid garbage and rubble...
Jordan's troubles also threatened to engulf Lebanon. In Beirut, guerrillas gathered in front of the Jordanian embassy to demonstrate against Hussein. They ultimately became so agitated that they burned down the building. Though directed against Jordan, the demonstration was probably a message to the Lebanese government as well. This week Beirut is scheduled to begin enforcing a tough new decree forbidding guerrillas to fire across the border into Israel, plant mines along the frontier or carry arms in populated areas. Such decrees have been issued before to discipline the fedayeen and avoid Israeli retaliation, but they have always...
...more plausible explanation was fear that bordered on panic. "Each man made the judgment on his own that his life was in danger," said Canterbury. "I felt that I could have been killed out there." A number of the men believed that the crowd was going to engulf them, perhaps take away their loaded weapons and turn the M1s on the troopers. Some had been hurt by thrown objects-but none seriously enough to require hospitalization. Though the units had served in riot situations before, most of the lower-ranking enlisted men had no war experience. The Guardsmen at Kent...