Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard took the initial face-off, and right from the start kept the pressure on Wheaton goalie Mary Ann Marsh. With Mary Howard working the right wing and Mleczko prowling the middle, the Harvard attack registered 18 shots on goal in the first half, while Wheaton only had four...
...front line of Gwill York, Mleczko, Howard and Jenny Stone would have broken the game wide open in the rest of the first half if it were not for Marsh's marvelous goaltending. She and the Wheatie defense turned back several Crimson charges, although Wheaton failed to mount an offense...
...official in Maryland's Somerset County calls it "an aggravation." Some of Somerset's oft-bitten residents would describe it in considerably stronger terms. Because of heavy rainfall, muggy weather and high tides that keep water overly long in the salt marshes of the state's Eastern Shore, the area is aswarm with mosquitoes. To determine how bad the infestation really is, the state's department of agriculture sent human volunteers into a mosquito-infested marsh and had them stand still for 60 seconds. As many as 100 mosquitoes per minute landed on the volunteers...
...been planning its strategy and training volunteers in the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Then the alliance marshaled its forces and took the offensive. As the main body of slogan-chanting demonstrators converged on the main gate of the Seabrook site, another group advanced on the area across a salt marsh. A third force arrived in boats piloted by local lobster-men-who fear that the discharge from the plant would cut their catches-and waded ashore. By the evening of the first day, the demonstrators seemed to have settled in for a long siege...
...occupiers had come to plant seeds and protect the marsh, to share music and back massages, and to befriend the police. But most of all they had come to protest and to act, to use their bodies as well as their minds to thwart the construction of the plant. They stayed until Sunday, when the police came out of their compound and carried them off to buses and then to jail. Yesterday 880 were still there...