Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after dawn, he decided our position was not only untenable, it was tough. The only escape was across three-quarters of a mile of swamp to a railway track...
...ounces dropped in a swamp kills all mosquito larvae...
...Skinny Wainwright's mother's side stood Grandfather Edward Serrell, who devised the "Swamp Angel"-the great 8-in. Parrott gun which was skidded across swamps, set upon piling and used to hurl 200-lb. shells into the heart of Charleston...
Before some 75 people in the Indoor Athletic Gymnasium last night, Company H of the V-12 Unit overcame an 11-point last period deficit to swamp Dunster House, 46-39, in the play-off game of the '43-'44 intramural basketball season...
Columnist Fisher is amused by the fact that in 1937 Pegler himself took one of the most eloquent swings at columnizing: "Of all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile . . . the most pretentious is the deep-thinking, hair-trigger columnist or commentator who knows all the answers offhand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality. . . ." Since writing this, says Fisher, there are "very few answers [Pegler] has not attempted to supply offhand. He is currently concerned with postwar planning (he's agin it) and with interpreting...