Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scuttled the boat, stashing aboard it a waterproof bag with $480,000, then took off through the waist-deep swamp toward the lights of El Jobean, a tiny fishing village. He never made it. Two Charlotte County deputies stalked him until finally he paused to rest directly in front of them. "We turned the light on him, and there he was, crouched down on a log, just sitting there," said Deputy Milton Buffington. They found $17,-000 in his pocket...
Stout Reeds. In the swamp of conflicting motives and interpretations surrounding talk of a bombing pause, there were a few seemingly stout reeds. The obvious Russian interest alone was rea son for optimism. So, on the other side, was the U.S. gesture of returning 14 captured North Vietnamese sailors, followed by an unusual South Vietnamese pledge to free 140 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese prisoners in time for National...
...going up than one-family houses. That condition has long prevailed in New York City, whose prosaic brick or concrete residential towers command attention mostly by sheer size. The current behemoth is Co-Op City, a 15,400-apartment complex now rising on the site of a former swamp in The Bronx. Both in and out of New York, the quality of construction often leaves something to be desired; many builders admit that noise traveling through thin walls is a main source of tenant irritation...
Protecting the channel is a dirty job. It flows through the nauseous swamp called the Rung Sat (Killer Jungle), now more than 50% devastated by defoliating agents, but still dense enough to serve as a haven for an estimated 800 V.C. troops. Because the narrow Long Tau could easily be blocked, the Viet Cong have been trying hard since the beginning of the American buildup in 1965 to do precisely that. "If a ship the size of the Kalydon could be sunk in the middle of the river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer...
...reasons that are sometimes hard to understand, every year some Northern tourists decide to come to the South. They don't come like the droves that swamp America's glamour spots, perhaps, but they do come. Every year, in its own modest way, the trickle of Northerners makes its way down. These Yankees are coming for a special purpose. Instead of looking for the simple amusement they could find in one of the North's Fun Cities, these pioneers are following a dream. They are following one of the two Great Southern Myths that the rest of the nation...