Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quinn plans a counterattack. Conning the kids, he becomes the head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything...
Before 1865, only those physically present in the Yard on the afternoon of commencement could vote for overseers. The older alumni were afraid the new graduates would swamp the election, so they instituted the five-year waiting period...
Seventy-six crews from 16 colleges as far west as Wisconsin will try to swamp Harvard's powerhouse of eights...
...hand of his Negro buddy who has been wounded tells of the brotherhood of battle without words. The mood is enhanced by rock 'n' roll and blues music. In one sequence, Nancy Sinatra sings These Boots Are Made for Walkin' as the platoon trudges through a swamp...
...delighted, even Administration economists were surprised by the size of the slash. "Too much, too soon," chorused other bankers, who next day began cutting their rates half as much, to 5¾%, in a half bow yet pointed rebuke to Chase. Then they sat back to watch loan demand swamp Chase with more business than it could handle...