Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beautification and for the SST, which environmentalists consider a disaster. Except for fostering the Assateague Island National Seashore, his attention to bills relating to wildernesses and national parks was spotty. He missed the roll call on proposals to preserve areas in San Rafael, Calif., Biscayne, Fla., and the Great Swamp...
...steady downpour, Harvard's varsity soccer team overcame the elements and soundly beat Dartmouth, 3-0, yesterday in the Business School Swamp. The victory gave Harvard sole possession of the Ivy League lead...
...SUNDAY afternoon and raining; in Vermont the foliage of the swamp maples and sumac had already turned their final colors. I sat in the rocker where Frost must have sat, before a fire leaping in the fireplace, enjoying the comfortable associations that I used to have with Frost. That was before Lawrence Thompson's just-published heavy second volume of Frost's biography, Years of Triumph. With it a whole summer's worth of enraged reviews have emerged, suggesting that Thompson had written an expose which profaned a sacred image...
...converging on Hampton Beach after the reported sighting of Gilday Thursday night. A police helicopter saw a man resembling his description run into the salt marshes and hovered over the area for several minutes spraying pepper gas on the area. Police set up a dragnet and skimmed through the swamp until dark. Gilday watched much of the bustle from a tree...
...congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns this fall. Even if only a tenth of that number actually turn out, Harris calculates, there will be 200,000 students out on the hustings around the U.S. "The experiment could well change American politics beyond recognition," Harris says. "The students could virtually swamp the political process." Or, he adds, they could stir up an enormous anti-student reaction on the part of their elders...