Word: swatch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still, there could be no denying that Iraq was in control of a 30-mile swatch of Iranian territory east of the Shatt al Arab, the 120-mile-long border waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf. There, on the ground, the rival forces were locked in battle at four critical locations...
...Moonies first began worrying the townspeople in 1977, when a church owned company bought a lobster packing plant for $330,000, a 14-room house and a swatch of swampy waterfront land. The church explained that it was simply going into the fishing business, as it had elsewhere, and, as William Sanders, 27, one of the plant's two Moonie managers put it, Gloucester was "our kind of town...