Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many times we could go around a traffic circle without getting dizzy, riding on the top of the hood of my car down the beach with no driver (steering with our feet through the open sunroof, and a book on the accelerator pedal) or driving through the Tomoka swamp roads to watch the phosphorescence on the drooping Spanish moss. I was very curious to see him because rumor had it that he was engaged...
Small as it is, there is something for everyone in New Jersey, including some things nobody really wants. The state possesses some of the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast, and one of the most dismal lunar landscapes of swamp, industrial waste, and smelly oil refineries to be found in the U.S. Its nearly 8 million people live in communities as diverse as the grinding black ghettoes of Newark, the elegant $200,000 homes of Short Hills and Princeton, and the Rockwellian small towns of Cumberland County that preserve the life-style of an earlier, simpler America...
...President Gerald Ford aroused such a furor. Last week he signed into law the first phase of his economy and energy program, provoking a veritable gusher of criticism from across the political spectrum. It is an outpouring that will be hard for him to cap, and it could ultimately swamp his ambitious, multi-faceted program...
Visiting teams use the home teams' horses to minimize transportation costs, and to eliminate advantages the teams swamp horses after the first period. Six fresh horses are brought in after the half and swapped again after the third period...
...banks to decide who will-and who will not-get a personal loan. He looks into the cozy relationships between many senior loan officers and their favorite corporate clients and considers the swelling torrent of bank paper work-28 billion checks in 1974 alone-that each year threatens to swamp the entire system...