Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Summers rest. "We're Cohen to Philly and there's no Laws about my knockin" em Stiff with my Mallett. We're getting Whittler and Whittler, and that's no Lyman. We made a Row last year by Tine 'em, and this year we'll raise Kane and swamp 'em 14 to 7." Bates 0 New Hampshire 20 Columbia 7 Brown 14 Cornell 20 Syracuse 13 Dartmouth 80 Amherst 13 Fordham 21 Southern Methodist 19 Holy Cross 54 Providence 6 Navy 20 West Virginia 20 Princeton 19 Williams 0 Yale 7 Virginia 20 Duke 7 Tennessee 0 Michigan 14 Iowa...
...month before they lined up, 50 miles apart, for the Battle of Louisiana, the soldiers of the two armies had been put through smaller-scale field maneuvers. They were in good training. Newsmen noted their endurance, their cheerful disregard of stream and swamp as they marched into position, their scrap and determination when the fight was on. Ben Lear's Red Army was given the northern position. Numerically inferior to the Blues (125,000 to 215,000), it had the advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps...
...fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops out of town, saved Alexandria from further fighting by an old maneuver device. Alexandria was declared an "impenetrable swamp...
...plant, newsmen spotted Army Blitz-buggies everywhere. Ford has delivered 1,500 of them, has 2,500 still to come. They saw a great aircraft apprentice school geared to turn out aircraft mechanics 3,000 at a time. And, crossing a stretch of land that last year was a swamp, they saw Henry Ford's favorite contribution to national defense: the Navy Service School. There, quartered in eight gleaming white barracks (built at Ford's expense), live 1,400 sailormen, learning in factory shops and classrooms how to be mechanics, electricians, ship's fitters, carpenters, metalsmiths...
...believes that when a policy has been laid down, it should be followed. When the Administration said: No-more-Business-as-Usual; when the President pledged the U.S. to become the "Arsenal of Democracy" he took it all literally. Then he watched the dinosaur of a defense program falter, swamp itself, stumble from delay to delay, without plan understanding or grim intent. He listened carefully to the defense chiefs delivering excellently-phrased appeals to the U.S. to arouse, make sacrifices, speed up. This looked very good in the rotogravures, but Mr. Ickes then watched the same orators on their return...