Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick to the pillows. When they were pulled from the river 15 min. later, clear water miraculously began to drain from them, while each 8-oz. bag retained 8 lbs. of oil sludge. Says Peterson's Ben Benson...
Fans began paying their way into the ballpark, if only to see what Turner would do next, but the Braves were still mired in the swamp. After they lost 16 in a row in 1977, Turner furloughed the manager, put on a uniform and supervised the 17th loss himself (to Pittsburgh...
Said Allen: "Tony had Jimmy killed. I was told that Jimmy was ground up in pieces, shipped to Florida and dumped in a swamp...
...There was a swamp in left-center," said center fielder Ellen Jakovic. "If a ball had landed there it-would have been difficult to pick up." Third baseman Pat Home agreed, noting that although the infield was fine, "they were catching polywogs out in the outfield...
...LAST DECEMBER'S Atlantic interview. David Stockman referred to a "swamp of $10-20-30 billion of waste" in the Pentagon budget. To drain that swamp. Stockman proposed to President Reagan significant cuts in the defense budget. Despite his arguments, and the prospect of an ever-growing federal budget deficit, Reagan sided with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 and his grandiose plans for rearmament at a fantastic cost: $1.6 trillion over the next five years...