Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, ailing Robert F. Wagner, the most solid of all New Dealers, surprised all experts by running ahead of F.D.R. to swamp colorless Tom Curran, Tom Dewey's personal choice...
...also sold his own productions, which were bestsellers. Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road-biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and-his best book-of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox. They abounded in doubtful anecdotes, unblushing fabrications and factual errors, but they were also buoyant, impulsive, racy and full of the spirit of their subjects. After Washington's death Parson Weems wrote to his publisher: "Washington, you know, is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am nearly primed and cocked...
Besides atabrine, the Army's "malaria discipline" includes screens, rolled-down sleeves, tucked-in trousers, mosquito repellents, puddle and swamp drainage...
There was no room for Adachi to maneuver in the 7-mile-wide corridor of swamp and jungle. But anything was better than death by stagnation. So he lashed out to the west, hoping to drive the Americans from Aitape, 21 miles away. What they hoped to gain beyond that, with Americans dug in 600 miles to the west of them, only Adachi and the sun-god knew...
...Into the Swamp. At 7:30 we plunged into the chest-deep swamp, holding our guns overhead and wading. Sometimes you'd step into a pothole up to your neck. When machine-gun bullets started pinging around us the sweat began to trickle. Water filled our pockets and every ounce became a pound. A few men were killed in that crossing, but most of us got across to the railway. By then our last ounce of energy seemed gone. But we went on two miles, panting and puffing up the track to dry land. Snipers were still taking a wham...