Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body lying in a marsh outside the Iraqi village of Al Beida was badly decomposed, but the swollen face appeared to be that of a youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick...
...novel's title is the name of a shapeless pendant of marsh and sand that meets the Atlantic about midway between Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. Simons, pronounced Simmons ("I'm a rare one-m Simons"), lives in this area among the palmettos, scrub oaks, fiddler crabs, and slave descendants who speak Gullah and keep the faith at Marvin's R.O. Sweet Shop and Baby Grand. There, Simons says, "I am a celebrity because I'm white, not even teen-age yet, and possess the partial aura of the Duchess...
...says the wily subteen, "is to accept a new can when anybody offers and let your old one get drunk by somebody else." He devises a successful "Boy Act," to unnerve and run off "coroners," his collective description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh teaches the need for patient observation: "If you go around beating the world with questions like a reporter or federal oral history junior sociologist ... all the answers will go back into mystery like fiddlers into pluff...
...that Washington maintains constant pressure on Pretoria to end apartheid. Said a top State Department official: "We have been credible and firm in insisting that reform must come." In the end, the two objectives of internal and external peace may be inseparably linked. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Marsh Clark/Komatipoort and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...personal appearances one by one. Hundreds of angry callers, citing her antiwar actions during the Viet Nam era, detoured her scheduled stopovers in New Orleans, Miami and New York City (though she made quiet, unofficial visits to stores in both Miami and New Orleans). Finally, at Jordan Marsh in Boston, while two dozen Viet Nam veterans carried protest signs (JANE TRAITOR FONDA WE HATE YOU), the new booster of the free enterprise system did her thing. She was just a bit exercised about the earlier experiences, however, saying a sentence that might once have been directed at her, "The very...