Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, raucous rock group that called its music "Southern raunchy roll"; when their chartered airplane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss. Among the six people killed were Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a vocalist with the group. All three were 28. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released...
There was only one reason why anyone in their right mind would stand in the pouring rain at Soldier's Field swamp yesterday watching the Harvard freshmen drop a 22-20 decision to their counterparts from Dartmouth: Paul Connors...
...Swamp Water. Thursday night at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church...
...continuous gutter that spills softly along its top, keeping the walls continuously dark and wet, adding to a public sensation of cool quiet and private peace. The "fizz" pool shoots up some 25 spray jets, producing a continual mist -"like ground fog settling among trees or over a swamp." The "rush" is a deep vortex of cascading water, studded with descending steps on which children and adults can climb, play or simply perch in the rejuvenating flow...
...their own making. If 4 million white Americans were living in a country with 21 million blacks (or 21 million American Indians, as South Africans often gleefully suggest), how would they act? Wouldn't they also fear that any significant political concession would, in Vorster's word, "swamp" them? Wouldn't they try to hold on to what they built (with black labor, of course)? And yet the longer real change is delayed, the harder it will be to achieve any sort of moderate settlement or work out a partnership between black and white. Right now that...