Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservationists, Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, 35 miles west of Miami, is a watery treasure of solitude and variety. Covering 968,000 acres of wetland, forest, rivers and islands, it teems with wildlife, including such endangered species as the Florida panther, alligator, snowy egret and bald eagle. Moreover, the swamp is a major watershed that supplies the vast Everglades National Park, immediately to the south, with a constant flow of vital water. To land subdividers, on the other hand, it seems the next logical place in which to expand Miami's suburbs...
Last week President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to authorize acquisition of 547,000 of Big Cypress' acres. The reason, he said, is to save them "from private development." Nixon thus outflanked Democratic Senators who already had mapped plans to protect the swamp. The cost of federal acquisition, said Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, will be "considerably in excess of $100 million," spread over the next decade...
Believing Whites. The effect was to swamp black candidates in many places. In the city of Jackson and Hinds County, 71,000 voters went to the polls and Black Lawyer Jack Young won just 13,900 votes. Basic political techniques -voter education, organizing a big turnout on election day-have not yet been mastered by the blacks. Some blacks, Young also believes, voted for his white opponent: "Black folks still believe what white folks say; they don't think they can believe in a black...
...doubles matches were full of errors," Evans said. "They should be ironed out during winter practice or the spring season. I thought we would really swamp them, but we only held on by the skin of our teeth," Evans said...
...another, and both the Giants and Jets would surely veto any such effort. Though the Giants have a lease to play in Yankee Stadium through 1974, some city officials favored canceling it as soon as possible. Snorted Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams: "If they want to play in a swamp, let them play in a swamp right...