Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planned. In each of these, water pumped up to huge tanks on mountain tops and released to generate electricity when needed. These will be built on Wantastiquet Mountain in Brattleboro, Vermont; on Northfield Mountain in Massachusetts; near Bellows Falls in Walpole, New Hampshire; and near Bear Creek Swamp above Rowe, Massachusetts. The ecological consequences of the 10 rise in river temperature, the 205 dams and the pump storage stations have hardly been investigated...
...THEATRE Company of Boston seemed almost moribund last year, when a development project took away its home at the Back Bay Theatre and increased debts threatened to swamp it. The Company is back, however and stronger than ever, if its latest production is an indication. Harold Pinter's Landscape and Silence, and Sam Shepard's La Turista make up the most interesting evening of theatre at the Loeb so far this season...
WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and- let's see- tomorrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin-day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there...
After making these notes, I went and bought a twenty-five-couponed palace-car ticket to Pelican Swamp, for four quids, two drinks, and a bowie-knife; then I sat down and waited half an hour...
...feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately,- sp-t-t-t-r,- the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...