Word: swampland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond New Orleans, the Mississippi River winds southward for a hundred miles toward the Gulf of Mexico. The marsh and swampland through which it flows is Plaquemines Parish...
...There's been no tabulation of my votes, and this is supposed to be a democracy," Blessitt said with a thick, Florida swampland accent. "The A.P. and the networks won't tell the people how we're doing. We had a quarter-mile long march in Manchester last week, and 800 people at a rally here in Concord Saturday, and not one news reporter showed up. William Loeb hasn't written one word about us. Just like Concord was blacked out last night [from an electric power failure], we've been blacked out by the media...
...feel absolutely emotional about it because ... it is so bloody stupid. It's like trying to walk across swampland. You know where you want to get, but there are all these things to prevent your legs from moving...
...down in paddy-fields. When the plane thudded down, it skidded over one paddyfield, skimmed a river and collapsed into a second paddyfield. Both wings snapped off, a fire erupted and finally the plane, six stories high, broke apart. Bodies were strewn about the paddy fields and swampland. Some 190 of the 305 people on board were killed, perhaps 140 of them children; survivors were rushed to Saigon hospitals...
...Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that within four months cleared the Suez Canal of more than 40 sunken ships...