Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from the bottom of the North Sea shows that the southern two-thirds of its basin was filled by a chilly swamp connecting Britain with the continent, from Denmark to France...
...competitors. And like a poker game at 3 a.m., inter-European trade is getting out of hand because Germans are cornering all the money. But wait until the Germans have to burden themselves with rearming, as we do, said their competitors hopefully, and floods of Volkswagens will no longer swamp world markets...
...demeanor was an understandable result of a week of remarkable courtroom dramatics. McKeon himself had provided the first highlight. Taking the stand in his own defense, he made a convincing witness as he told the court that his only concern, even as he led his platoon through a tidal swamp, had been for his troops-that if they failed to learn the need for discipline, they might "crumble" in combat...
Like a breath of clean air in a swamp comes your damning with faint praise of Adlai and the Democratic Party. I did not think that you could stop glamorizing Ike long enough to do this...
...surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...