Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...benefit from U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's presence on the G.O.P. ticket. In her quest for a fourth term, the redoubtable Mrs. Smith has a little-known opponent-the Democrats apparently figuring that to mount a determined challenge would only bring out a Smith vote that could swamp their entire slate...
...swamp gas might have been particularly thick around Manhattan that day. Knut Hammarskjöld, 44, director general of the International Air Transport Association, was conjuring up otherworldly aircraft at a meeting of the Aviation Space Writers Association. "I must make a confession," said Knut, whose Uncle Dag Hammarskjold was rather a mystic before him. "I believe in those Unidentified Flying Objects. Is it really unlikely that there exist civilizations outside our planet which are more developed, both technically and mentally, than we are? Are these space neighbors of ours getting more interested in what we are doing...
...People's Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...
...experienced four of the stormiest years in its political history. Under James J. Dworak, a bow-tied mortician before he became mayor in 1961, the city's pressing problems, from slum housing to rotting sewage pipes, were left to marinate in what the Omaha World-Herald called a "swamp of stagnation." Dworak's reign was marked instead by feuding with the police department, the mayor's indictment on charges of soliciting a $25,000 bribe (he was acquitted), an unsuccessful recall movement, and such ludicrous controversies as a hassle over the size of a G string worn...
...next night, Manner's farm looked like a fairground. Saucer-seekers bearing telephoto lenses trooped to the swamp through driving rain. From the University of Michigan came a scientist who welcomed extraterrestrial visitors by flashing the universal equation of pi with his car headlights - three blinks, one blink, then four blinks. He got no response, to the loud chagrin of Renee Scott, 3, who came with her parents, ex pecting to see a spaceman with "green, yellow and orange-juice hair...