Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accomplishing the unusual feat of scoring a touchdown on the opening kickoff which they themselves kicked to Dudley, the Winthrop House football team went on to swamp the Ramblers 18 to 0, while Kirkland was blanking Eliot 6 to 0 in the first two games of the 1942 schedule yesterday afternoon...
...were giving him his greatest opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that morass than it is for the people who were born for a life in that mire...
...seventh tree was for George Heisler. Hiding in a swamp, Heisler planned his moves with the shrewdness of an experienced political prisoner. Soon he would have to get out of the bog and seek help from man. To whom should he go-to his estranged wife, to his former mistress, to his best friend of pre-prison days, to his former political friends...
...warships and transports. Allied fighter planes lugging small bombs spotted them, strafed their transports and sank a gunboat. But under a screen of low-lying clouds and a tropical downpour, they ducked into the ten-mile-wide mouth of Milne Bay, launched barges and poured out on the swamp-fringed shore...
Economically, the idea is wholly, sound, but politically considerations, may swamp it. Business men, concerned lest such concentration destroy the "good-will" value of their trade-marks and ruin the competitive position of the "squeezed-out" firms in trading after the war, are opposing the program as strenuously as is possible in wartime. Some of them have come around to approve the principle, but they insist that the application of it be left in their hands, much as were the old NIRA codes. They are willing to sacrifice so long as it doesn't hurt their post-war position...