Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson linksters parlayed strong rounds from the bottom players on their ladder to swamp MIT and Bates yesterday in a rare match play format at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton...
...people divide American Protestantism into two stereotypes: the liberals, whose faith is supported by reason, and the conservatives or Evangelicals, who favor an emotional religion of testimonials and tent meetings. One leading Evangelical, however, contends that the underlying principles are just the reverse. Liberal theology is mired in a swamp of subjectivity, he says, while Evangelicalism stands or falls on the basis of reason, not emotion...
...losing the count at the bottom of a hill where we have plunged into unexpected muddy ooze. We stand, gasping for breath, shin deep in the freezing mud, tracing our path on the map. We are on the track. We pull our feet out of the mire, skirt the swamp and climb the hill...
...hill−and the checkpoint−should be. No hill. Trusting the compass, we dash off again, leap a fallen birch, catch a sapling in the face. Still no hill. We stop, listen. Nothing but our pounding hearts and labored panting. Retrace our steps and go back to the swamp? No, we'll crash blindly ahead on our bearing. Now the ground begins to rise: a hill. We sprint up it. Suddenly we see a tree and the red-and-white flag that signifies we have reached the checkpoint. We throw ourselves down on the ground giggling with relief...
...hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid 240-acre swamp in Florida...