Word: bogging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary...
...particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson lose their potency. The mixture Dr. Avery has injected into mice and rabbits...
...Irish project is sure, in a city with the Irish ingredients of New York, of many and potent sympathizers. In the original Irish Theatre group there were twelve members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble...
...McKiernan had been a member of the Republican Army. Brooding on the risks he was running undermined his courage. He asked his friend Peter Mitchell to help him dispose of the rifles he had been ordered to hide. Just as the two boys were dumping their contraband in a bog the Drumdiffer constabulary closed in on them. The Military Tribunal again was not unduly severe. The boys were released in $250 personal bail on a pledge never to have anything more to do with illegal organizations...
...sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen O'Sullivan's smallclothes hidden in David O'Shea's hedge. Assistants pulled the other sock, the other gaiter, out of the bog not far from where the wayward dairymaid's body was found...