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...rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes were in bud, and peeping frogs sang in the bog water of the old canal...
...breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line. The attackers rushed forward-only to bog, company after company, in the wide crater. The Confederates began lobbing mortar shells, and within a short time, close to one-third of the attackers were wiped...
...take a national emergency to impress this problem upon the public mind. We only hope it sticks. The AF of L has the right alternative and the inter-state waterfront commissions have the right approach. But the dockers need the understanding of more than organized labor, and state commissions bog down without public support. Stability on the docks will only be realized when the public so acts to show its realization that dock workers are not merely undesirable men in an essential industry, but human beings with the same dignity and needs as everybody else...
Recently, many comedies have been variations on the theme of immorality, but few have so successfully skirted the wide bog of poor taste into which much humor based on sex falls...
...Wall Street Journal, potatoes were "bog oranges...