Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a few such private projects leading the way, the Federal Government is also getting into the act by financing free legal services in 19 cities. The need is obvious. In Chicago, where the Government's effort is still mired in a bureaucratic swamp, the bar-run Legal Aid Bureau readily admits: "We only serve half the people who need our services." In Washington, however, the mainly Government-financed Neighborhood Legal Service Project has six thriving neighborhood centers serving 180,000 people. Of all its cases so far, 30.7% involve housing, 10.6% consumer rights, 8% welfare, 7.3% adult criminal...
Penn took second, third, fourth, fifth and eighth to swamp the freshmen. Doug Hardin won in for the Yardlings...
Ledge of Actuality. In fact, this is an outrageously bad book, written by an author with very little of interest to say, even to herself, and very little skill in saying it. It is composed of a swamp of hallucinated recollections, in the center of which resides a distracted spinster named Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky...
Even more amazing adventures can occur-like losing your way. Tubers often float too far downstream or take the wrong fork. Early this summer two women chatted away so feverishly they did not notice that the river had slowed to a swamp. Startled by the sound of cows grazing on the riverbank a few feet away, they scrambled ashore, only to find their path blocked by a gun-toting farmer...
...Swamp or inland sea, it was hard for outside observers to figure what India and Pakistan had to gain in the Rann-other than a prolongation of their long-standing feud. Some Western diplomats think Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan planned the action before his trip to Washington was "postponed" last month by Lyndon Johnson. In Washington, Ayub could have argued that India, armed with American weapons since its border fight with Red China in 1962, had become dangerously aggressive and should receive no more U.S. military aid. But Ayub's forces did not hesitate to use their...