Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where they fertilize prodigious growths of algae. As the algae decompose, they use up enormous quantities of oxygen. Fish die; the water looks and tastes so bad that other chemicals have to be added to make even potable water palatable for human use. Finally, a lake turns into a swamp or bog and slowly "dies...
Those conditions breed fear and paranoia, in which the young soldier sees all Vietnamese as threatening. When he is also weary from hours of trudging through swamp and jungle and then sees a friend killed beside him ? and friendships are highly emotional bonds in combat ? a soldier can easily go wild. At My Lai, however, the rampage was a group affair rather than individual breakdowns, something much harder to understand...
...undefeated season yesterday with a 23-2 win over an undermanned and outplayed Yale Daily squad. Behind the passing of quarterback Tom Southwick, brought off the bench in the last three minutes of the game and the hand and moves of Mike Barrett, he Crimeds came from behind to swamp the stunned and previously unbeaten Elis...
...indeed disappointing, in 1969, to again confront "Asian experts" proclaiming that the United States has simply become entangled in a morass, quagmire, or swamp. Furthermore, these scholars are not only constitutionally incapable of trying to understand the NLF and its goals, but they casually dismiss the Third World and its billion people with equal insensitivity. We can now understand how such naivete twenty years ago resulted in the mythical "loss of China...
...plan of the Dade County Port Authority does indeed loom as the crippling blow. Paying private landowners an average price of only $180 an acre, the Port Authority last year quietly began to acquire 39 square miles on the edge of Big Cypress Swamp, which supplies 38% of the park's water. As originally stated, the purpose was to build a "training" jetport for five airlines, whose landing fees will finance a $10 million bond issue for the first runway, which Eastern Air Lines will open next month. Able to handle the new super jets...