Word: swamplands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on grass beside the squirrelish Paramys...
...Girls. In the first, five women till the harsh swampland of Norfolk; in the second, a Thatcheresque career woman chats with her peers from throughout history. In both, British Feminist Caryl Churchill displays acerbic ironies and dazzling technique...
...east of England, less than 100 miles north of London, the Fens draws its name from the fact that it was swampland reclaimed for farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...
...first time since ninth grade, I am not on the beat anymore. On my way to law school in the fall, I am confident I can do something constructive with my life, as opposed to selling Florida swampland or pushing memos in circles on a desk in a glass office tower. But I'm unsure about what my responsibilities are to act on the unease I feel, and what my capacity will be to make a significant contribution toward improving my society. I'm wondering what Meldon E. Levine is doing today...
...carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...