Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prifty's second, a 300-foot air-mail delivery to left, might have been a long out. John Dockery got his hands on the wind-blown ball, but lost control when he ran into the swamp basin at the edge of the outfield...
...There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm...
...Arthur D. Little spokesman said that NASA has not indicated an interest in the swamp tract, which adjoins the company's plant. He blamed "some wishful citizens in West Cambridge" for the "unfounded rumor" that NASA was considering the site...
...Syria are hard to take seriously: St. Maron, who spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree trunk; St. Acepsimas, who wore so many chains he had to crawl on all fours; Macarius the Younger, who felt so guilty about swatting an insect that he sat naked in a swamp for six months until mosquito bites made him look like a leper...
Offered a rare opportunity to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...