Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dense papyrus swamp 50 miles from Nairobi last week, the Mau Mau were making what the British hoped was their last stand. Sixty terrorists were trapped, including several members of the hierarchy which has directed the four-year war against their fellow Kikuyu tribesmen and their white employers. With an estimated 3,000 Mau Mau at large in scattered groups, the British felt that "the emergency" was almost ended...
Attacks of Protocolic. For a while last week, it had seemed that this whole ambitious schedule would be bogged down in a swamp of protocol. Advised that foreign governments might balk at giving him the full red-carpet treatment before Brazil's slow-moving Electoral Tribunal officially declared him President-elect, Kubitschek first announced a postponement of the trip. Flurries of messages buzzed between Rio and Brazilian embassies abroad. From Paris, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon, Bonn and The Hague came assurances that Kubitschek would be treated as President-elect, certified or not. The U.S. State Department followed along. London...
...utterly frustrated by "gyascutus, prock, tree squeak and swamp gaboon" [Nov. 28]. You frequently footnote less esoteric phrases. Please elucidate...
...Shame on Reader Coggin for not recognizing such denizens of U.S. folklore. The gyascutus (stone-eating variety) resembles the prock, or sidehill sauger, insofar as its telescopic legs enable it to graze easily on steep hillsides; it is unrelated, however, to the tree squeak and swamp gaboon (both offshoots of the lowly whangdoodle group), but it does claim a sort of Pilgrim kinship to the English slithy toves and borogoves...
...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...