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...this is a long jump indeed from Joe's irresponsible guerrilla tactics back in the days when McCarthyism was a kind of Washington swamp fever. He dealt in false allegations that various public officials (and distinguished private citizens too) were either Communists or dupes of Communism. He attacked not just alleged Communists but also their colleagues, friends and relatives. He almost never seriously tried to check facts. Finally, he was backed by a whole apparatus of secret interrogations and blacklists by which a victim could be deprived of reputation and livelihood without any chance to defend himself. The term...
...perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood). Trollope finally became fairly sick of Barsetshire. A. Conan Doyle did his best to throw Sherlock Holmes off an alpine cliff. Frankenstein's monster always ends in the swamp. Dracula is staked through the heart...
There were other extenuating circumstances in yesterday's match besides the poor greens. "There were bugs all over the place," McConnell said. "The place is low and there's a swamp in the middle of the course. Between the bugs and the bad greens we had our troubles...
Louisiana officials know that there is more than one way to skin a gator. Still determined to thin out the swamp population, they recently "offered" more than 2,000 of the reptiles to the Audubon Society. The organization's leaders bravely accepted the gift, and plan to truck the alligators to refuges in other Southern states. In the bargain, Audubon officials also got some free advice from William Summerville, general curator of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City: "Keep their backs sprayed while they're in the truck so they don't dry out. Make...
...through the region. "It is as though North America were being rediscovered. The delays and errors of Soviet planners have been considerable, but so have many of their achievements. In the face of fierce winters and broiling summers, when the tundra thaws just enough to become a mosquito-ridden swamp, Siberia has been converted into a force to be reckoned with in the world economy...