Word: swamped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remainder of the mercenary forces suffered heavy casualties, dispersing in a swamp area from which no escape is possible...
...very narrow road and a railroad bed from the beach to Jagüey Grande," he said, "a distance of 24 miles, with swamp on both sides and mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes. This swamp offers some advantages-you can't be flanked. But it makes no difference; you can be stopped easily enough." Nevertheless, the plan was to cut Cuba in two by stabbing quickly northward along the road and the railroad bed to the main east-west highway, and on to the northern coast...
...sensuousness of the Requiem can easily swamp its melodic simplicity, but Charles Munch and the chorus avoided this pitfall perfectly. Munch emphasized heavily but tastefully the continual swelling and falling of dynamics, and the chorus maintained excellent clarity of voices to give their texture a limpid serenity...
...astonishing speed. By last week dense mats, some of them strong enough to support a man, covered 15% of the lake, and local scientists were in a dither. Professor Boris I. Balinsky of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand warned that Salvinia might turn the lake into a swamp and eventually...
Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...