Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lynn recently attended a meeting of Carter's economic advisers at his mother's now-famous Pond House in Plains...
...items in the campaign were Carter's sexual fantasies and Miss Lillian's fish pond. That's pretty thin gruel to run a campaign on," he said...
...skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high as a pine, sorry as gully dirt...
WALKING CATFISH. Introduced into Florida from Southeast Asia, walking catfish have become a major nuisance in the Sunshine State. They have taken over many lakes and ponds, devouring more desirable species, and when they need more food, they move on -overland. They are often seen "walking" across highways and lawns, using their stubby fins to propel themselves from one pond or canal to another. They have defied all efforts to exterminate them; their northern advance is stopped only by freezing temperatures...
Largely in the interest of attaining one of the next stones in the local political pond, candidates for the School Committee have generally run against busing since 1965, because, as the past two years have made clear, nobody really likes to seek their kids bussed. So Garrity, one could say, accused the School Committee members with carrying out their campaign promises, and all too rigorously, too thoroughly, too well. Specifically, the court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center...