Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bits & peeses. It would moreover be bad Politicks to disinvite the entire Country. Maybe your Luck will hold and most Everyone will have made other plans for that day. If not, the only advice I can proffer - now that you have stepp'd forthrightly into a potential Swamp - is to pray (a Skill of yours I much admire) and bann the consumption of intoxicating Spirits. You may remember one of my Famous Sayings: "One man with courage makes a majority." Much of my early life was spent in the Co. of soldiers, and I know how compleatly liquor...
Says Governor C. Cliff Finch: "We are embarking on a new era, the husbandry of the Pascagoula swamp forest, for the benefit of the citizens of Mississippi." The state is so pleased with its new policy, in fact, that it is already considering acquiring another 1,200 acres of untouched forest land in the Mississippi Delta...
...final portion of the exhibit was "Socialist New Tibet," where "the emancipated serfs have organized to develop production." It is a hall filled with all kinds of grains, fruits and vegetables, furs and agricultural machinery, along with various exhortations for communal economic development. In a filled-in swamp below the Potala, the Chinese have built an administrative complex and guesthouse...
...political reporting, speaks with a pronounced North Carolina drawl, but a Mississippi lady told him, "I knew you weren't from the South." Washington Correspondent Arthur White toured the South for several weeks to report on the good life. One memorable locale: Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp...
...worked to find purely visual equivalents: in a spicy Szechwan restaurant, where steam billows from the customers' mouths and ears; in a ro mantic fantasy number, featuring the bride and groom coming to life atop a wedding cake, tapping down the tiered layers and sinking in a swamp of frosting. There is a rambunctious interlude in a sports car, small and overcrowded, where a pregnant passenger in the boot tips the balance and sends the MG down the street on rear axle power, looking like a bicycle on training wheels...