Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house and drives a car, or seems to--L.A.'s public spaces are voluntary, even happy ones: the beach, the amusement park, above all the mall. Or maybe it's just the climate--it's easier to be mellow under bright, clear, 80-degree skies than in the concrete swamp that is Manhattan in the summer...
...Radcliffe Quad. (You could say that we were "Quadded" even before we got here.) Garden Street is a lovely name that hints deliciously at pastoral delights. But back in 1673, when it was nothing more than a humble cowpath, it was known by a decidedly less appealing name: Great Swamp...
Grudgingly, painfully, the swamp that swallowed Flight 592 is surrendering parts of the jet, as well as human remains, but it has not yielded an exact answer to what caused the crash. Investigators, wading through thick heat, razor-sharp saw grass, toxic jet fuel and the almost cartoonish threat of alligators, first speculated that the 27-year-old DC-9 was struck down by some combination of age and poor maintenance. Now they are focusing on a new culprit: the 50 to 60 oxygen generators believed to have been stowed--perhaps mistakenly--in the forward cargo hold of the aircraft...
...passengers--can again fly high. "We will be better than just keeping afloat," he insists. "We will recover from this and rise to a new level of customer confidence and become a fine airline." Much of that depends, of course, on answers still buried deep in the Florida swamp...
...ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...