Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonel William E. Byrd, the colonial ancestor of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, named the place the Great Dismal Swamp. After trekking through the muck and mire with a band of hardy surveyors, Byrd emerged bug-bitten almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds...
...country is disturbingly low. Yet when a former Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy, ran for the Presidency against a man named Nixon, he did transcend the smile-slogan level. He did present a program and an articulate, progressive vision for this country. His younger brother, however, instead of transcending swamp-politics mired in it, and finally has come to epitomize...
Some very unsettling arguments have been set forth in defense of Resnais' well-publicized hit. In the swamp of praise this one bobs to the surface most frequently...
...Inflationary Swamp. After many years of remarkable self-restraint, West German unions have picked up the chant of Construction Workers Chief Georg Leber: "Get all you can." The Germans have a lot of getting to do: family income averages only $181.30 a month and at the rate pay has been going up in recent years, German wages will not catch up with U.S. wages for 20 years-if even then. But wages in the past twelve months have soared 14%, wiping out.a productivity gain of 7%. Businessmen have covered part of the increase by raising prices (Germany's export...
...they are dwarfed by the 310-ft. gantry and 240-ft. umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters, 325 ft. tall, will not be put together on the pads, as is the present practice. The C55 will be assembled...