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Word: swamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seashore has a visitor center in Eastham which is helpful, interesting and attractive. Also in Eastham, and part of the Seashore, are Coast Guard Beach and the Red Cedar Swamp. There is a path through the swamp which few people know about even though it is publicized at the visitors' center, well worth the hour it takes to walk...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing Railroad Roulette | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Focusing on the circumstances leading to an old man's death and decay in a swamp of quicksand, the work is, as Ionesco described it, "rather sad--the story of a man who does not know his reason for living...

Author: By James Ulmer, | Title: Ionesco Screens Movie Before Overflow Audience | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

...easy way out. She could have recommended that the subsidies for a thousand or so academic journals be canceled; the state of prose writing in the U.S. would have improved overnight. Instead of draining the swamp, though, Van Leunen wants to redecorate it. The first suggestion in her manual does away with old-fashioned footnotes and the superscriptions² that heralded them. This simple stroke could save typists and printers everywhere from a common, dizzying dilemma: how to make the damnable text and footnotes count out correctly on each page. The new footnote would simply be a number, in brackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Note Worthy | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Andros blames the demise of his company primarily on a swamp of cheap CB sets imported from - where else? - Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hy-Gain Loses | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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