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Word: swamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Run-In on the Rann | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Good Grief | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...know anyone in the industry who hasn't been embarrassed from time to time by the disgraceful and frenzied interviews of public figures that are put on the air. Hordes of radio and television reporters, augmented by photographers and reporters of the newspapers, literally swamp the person being interviewed. Hand-carried microphones are thrust into his face from all directions; he is often half-blinded by the television lights; questions are shouted at him simultaneously from two or three reporters. All too often everybody gets the same treatment-be he a high-ranking Government official, a visiting foreign dignitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Electronic Hodgepodge | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...wind up in the swamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Atlanta Conference | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). In this musical-comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Carol Burnett re-creates her off-Broadway role as a swamp girl who swims the castle moat and is courted by a prince. Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary composed the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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