Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee, the Representative with the most to say about national defense. His interest in the military brought him one of his several congressional nicknames: as a friend of the Navy he was early dubbed "the Admiral." For his skill in cloakroom maneuver, he won the admiring handle "the Georgia Swamp Fox," after the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, who harried the British as a guerrilla leader in the Carolinas...
...runs off into a swamp, the dawn mist floating in tatters through the dead trees. Ivan is a spy. For two years, he has been foraging information behind the Nazi lines, living on scraps and courage. Vengeance sustains him too, for at twelve, gaunt and pale, his whole reason for choosing this frightening life is to make the enemy pay for murdering his family. Arriving finally at a Russian outpost, Ivan (Kolya Burlaiev) is brought before a young lieutenant. He refuses to identify himself, insisting arrogantly that the officer "call up HQ and tell them that Bondarev is here...
...commissioner Robert F. Murphy, who complained about hurricane floods and the Authority's landscape architect. Testifying next, Murphy's engineering assistant gave detailed explanations of tides and hurricanes; and Arthur Sullivan, director of waterways and canals, warned that the Harvard crew would find itself marooned on a quickly drying swamp if the Authority's plan is accepted...
Crimson coach Bill McCurdy didn't use six of his best performers in Briggs Cage last night, but the track team still managed to swamp the remarkably inept Engineers of M.I.T. The varsity swept three events out of 13 and took both relays in the 82 to 27 shellacking...
Plow Tomorrow. Como tumbled before a program that is dedicated to finding out how many times the same joke can be repeated. Mountaineer Jed Clampett and his family, worth $25 million because oil was found in their swamp back in the Ozarks, have moved to Beverly Hills to live among the polychrome celebrities of show biz. Pa bought a house built by John Barrymore, and the place is easily large enough to be mistaken for a university. Pa takes an appreciative look at the smooth and gorgeous sweep of lawn and says, "Fine, we'll commence plowing tomorrow...