Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artifacts made by the Asmat people of western New Guinea. Young Rockefeller is thought to have drowned at sea; no trace of him was ever found. Though his contribution to anthropology was slight, he brought back quite a lot of Asmat art, and the works of this previously obscure swamp folk have been given an immense memorial prominence...
Meanwhile, there is this Sunday to consider. To get to this year's Super Bowl, coming from New Jersey wasn't enough. Coming from a wind tunnel in Flushing also wasn't enough. To be the Cinderella team of 1981-82, you had to come from a swamp in California...
Chicago police traced an Illinois driver's license which was found near Webster's pocketbook and wallet in a Saugus swamp last week, but the license did not lead to any useful information, a University spokesman said last night...
Funeral Games ends the trilogy. The novel opens in 323 B.C. with Alexander, 33, dying of swamp fever in a Babylonian palace. Renault guides us through the property, noting its special features and listing the previous owners. Her description could be a model for Beverly Hills realtors: "Nebuchadrezzar's bedroom, once ponderously Assyrian, had been Pesianized by successive kings from Kyros on. Kambyses had hung its walls with the trophies of conquered Egypt; Darius the Great had sheathed its columns with gold and malachite: Xerxes had pegged across one side the embroidered robe of Athene, looted from the Parthenon...
...defense spending: "The whole question is blatant inefficiency, poor deployment of manpower, contracting idiocy .. . Hell, I think there's a kind of swamp of $10 to $20 to $30 billion worth of waste that can be ferreted out if you really push hard. [But the Pentagon] got a blank check . . .they got so goddamned greedy that they got themselves strung way out there on a limb...