Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson offense continued to swamp the UNH defense, making repeated shots on the overworked Trask. At 29:15, Duffy took a pass in front of the goal from Sevier and knocked it squarely into the net for the afternoon's final tally...
TIME'S Jon Lee Anderson recently joined a squad of 20 Miskito rebels on a foray by boat that ended some 80 miles inside Nicaraguan territory; the guerrillas eventually camped in a mangrove swamp near a Miskito settlement south of the coastal town of Puerto Cabezas. At dusk, several of the rebels approached the village. The residents were friendly: women prepared food for the guerrillas, while a young instructor at a local Sandinista center for popular education complained about the pressures for political conformity from the revolutionary regime. Commented Leonard Zuñiga, 46, the Miskito rebel commander...
...prelaw student at Duke and old for a swimmer, like many of the other veterans on a squad that regards itself as covered by vines and lichen. Of 43 team members, 36 are 18 or older. Hogshead was on the 1980 Olympic team, then slogged through the emotional swamp caused by the U.S. boycott. The next year, worn by a practice routine that had her up at 4:45 every morning from seventh grade through high school, she quit swimming, "I could eat cookies for lunch," she recalled last week. But after a year and a half in dry dock...
Finally, while the movie succeeds brilliantly as a children's film, it makes the mistake of occasionally trying to say more. Most of the obstacles facing Atreyu have Phantom Tollbooth-like names such as the Swamp of Sadness--where the muck will suck you in if you can't hold a stiff upper lip and keep the sadness from overcoming...
Children can deal with that (although they probably like the dark things which lurk in the swamp better), but what can they be expected to make of things like the second gate to the South Sage? The South Sage gate is a mirror which reflects a person's inner self. Although not a physical barrier, it is an effective deterrent because "most men, when confronted with their true inner nature, run away screaming." True, perhaps, but very much over the heads of eight-year-olds and too simplistic for their parents. At such times the movie's audience and message...