Word: swamp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ROME'S FORUM, today a stupendous relic left from the days when it was the heart of the proud Roman Republic and later a center of empire, was built on a drained swamp area between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills. Sacred to Roman eyes, it served as a marketplace, law center, place of oratory, government and worship, contained the ancient Umbilicus Romae (a brick navel marking the ideal center of the city) and the reputed tomb of Romulus...
...first, was born as a Gulf of Mexico squall in a wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
Brunei (pronounced broon-eye) later fell upon hard times. In 1888, reduced to an impoverished patch of mangrove swamp about the size of the state of Delaware, it was forced to accept British protection. The British set up a few roads, schools and hospitals, put a Resident in charge to keep an eye on the local Sultan, and, for the rest, let Brunei wallow in its primitive backwash...
...where are the customers' yachts?" As of last week, with 30 million Americans sailing almost 6,000,000 boats of all kinds in the greatest boating boom of all time, Wall Street's customers-along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers-had enough yachts to swamp Wall Street's navy and dot every U.S. shoreline from California to Maine. How did the boom grow and what is the U.S. boating industry, already awash with prosperity, doing to keep up with a market that will grow to $1.5 billion this year? See BUSINESS, Down...