Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school students seemed to be slightly outnumbered, however, for every time they let some snow fly, about 20 Harvard students would swamp them with an icy bombardment...
Determined to prevent any such upset, Harvard decisively handed Dartmouth a 3-0 defeat. The Crimson's transition play was hampered by the swamp-like Cumnock field, but Harvard dominated the first half...
...vision that seems to reach back to Bruegel and can make a crude enlarged plaque of some cuts of supermarket meat look like the site of a massacre. With Rosenquist, it is the crude oppositions, engrossing in their pure Americanness. The woman's face rising out of an orange swamp of spaghetti in I Love You with My Ford, 1961, remains one of the great dream images of that vanished world in which cars had fins and people read the Saturday Evening Post...
...geopolitics as in logistics, the map is not the territory; following dotted lines on a piece of paper, you can still get lost or fall into a swamp or an ambush. As Bush felt his way through these past two years, he may have been better off with his natural aptitude for reassuring people and his preference for restraining them than he would have been with a Kissingerian or Brzezinskian grand design...
...Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan calls the din surrounding U.S. food products. But if Americans are having trouble deciphering the language in food labels and advertising, just who or what is to blame? The food industry likes to point the finger at the Federal Government's regulatory swamp, while the government puts the onus on overzealous marketers. But in truth there is enough culpability for all. For years now, foodmakers and government regulators have been tangled up together in a web of sloppy practices and, above all, cozy politics. "Everything in nutrition is political," declares Marion Nestle, who chairs...