Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HATCHETMAN: A literal derivation from the military vocabulary of coIonial America, when a hatchetman, or axman. chopped foliage in advance of troops operating in woods or swamp. On the political ladder, a henchman (etymologically, the Anglo-Saxon hengest-man, or horse groom) is one rung above a hanger-on but one rung below a hatchetman...
Edge of the Swamp. A lanky (6 ft. 5 in.), all-business bachelor, Drake himself is trying to learn to swing a little with the music set in Los Angeles. But it does not come naturally to a fellow who was born Philip Yarbrough (his assumed name, he says, "sounds better") in Georgia on the edge of Okefenokee swamp. What did come naturally, though, was the sound of music. At an early age, he was conducting a fantasy disk-jockey show at home, playing his favorites-gospel and country, Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high...
...Babe and A Winter's Tale in Georgia. A ruined Southern family waits for the last murderous blow of the Civil War in Sherman's brazen march through the entire swamp of the South. The hurricane comes and the upheaval is as potent as it is wide-ranging. To Mrs. Chestnut, the Southern lady of the manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured...
...marchers of Resurrection City are complaining about the noise from jets approaching National Airport. New York's proposed superport in Morris County, N.J., is being blocked by protests. Last week the House Interior Committee, urged on by New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, moved to make the Great Swamp area, where the field would be built, a wildlife preserve instead of an airport. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley is contemplating a plan to build a 12.6-sq.-mi. airport on landfill in Lake Michigan, and Cleveland's Mayor Carl B. Stokes has a similar plan under...
With all sense of obstacle removed, The African Queen evokes all the tension of a journey from Harvard Square to Park Street; only once does Huston create a moving conflict, when Allnut, effectively de-leeched, realizes he must go back into the leech-infested swamp in order to extricate the boat from the muddy canal...