Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urbanologists agree that one of the most important ways of saving the cities is simply to have more cities. Ylvisaker has proposed that New Jersey create a city of 300,000 out of a vast, 21,300-acre swamp across the Hudson River from Manhattan-a "TVA in the meadows"-and has his eye on other undeveloped areas...
...deployed his accomplished cast of American and Italian singers in fluid lines and ghostly dances, spelling out his concept that "the whole opera is based on the characters' search for each other." The designs simplified rather than complicated his problems of staging. Moore's sets "do not swamp the opera but bring out its tragedy and symbolism," Menotti says. "His sculptures are passionate and compassionate: they seem to be listening to Mozart's music, moving...
When a chartered Imperial Airlines Constellation plunged into a swamp outside Richmond, Va., in 1961, killing 74 army recruits, the struggling nonscheduled airline industry seemed to crash with it. Irked by poor safety records, corner-cutting operations and complaints from tourists stranded when companies ran out of money-and armed with a tough new law from Congress-the Civil Aeronautics Board cleaned house. Some 20 carriers went out of business, and the survivors were forced to adhere to rigorous standards...
...climbed off a tramp steamer at Jaffa (wearing his brass-buttoned school uniform and carrying a change of clothes in a sack), Levi Eshkol has been active in almost every part of the development of the Jewish state. He helped found a kibbutz (Degania B) in a malaria swamp on the Sea of Galilee and was a delegate to the founding conference of Histadrut, Israel's powerful labor organization, which now controls some 47% of the economy. A congenial man who speaks six languages (Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Russian, English and French), he was a frequent shaliah (emissary) on fund-raising...
...refused to face a fight squarely. During British Cavalry Colonel Banastre Tarleton's fiery raids in New York's rebellious upper Westchester County, Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton carefully burned to the ground, barns, cattle...