Word: swampland
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Some 60 miles north of New Orleans, a mud road strays off from the main highway, cuts through rich, sombre swampland I down to the green levees girdling the Mississippi. There, hidden in an elbow of the I river, far from the nearest village, stands a white-columned plantation house. Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugarcane workers or tenant farmers. But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers...
...fault lies, unprejudiced sources claim with the choosing of the site of the traditional sent of "Harvard Indifference." All the region south of Eliot and South Streets--the area now occupied by Eliot House and Memorial Drive used to be a low-lying swampland on which "squatters" lived in cabins, whose disappearance into the swamp in the early days of Cambridge provided one of the chief sources of excitement for local witch-hunters...
...Hyde Park, got his specially-designed Ford stuck hubdeep in Dutchess County swampland, was unstuck by Secret Service...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...
...lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...