Word: swamplands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...industry has come a long way since the 1950s, when submerged swampland in Florida was sold through the mail to millions of unfortunates. Today most of the land offered is at least dry, and the bigger developers are switching their emphasis from peddling lots to planning communities. A guide to some of the more interesting...
...values, Florida is either one of the fastest-growing or one of the fastest-decaying states in America. Each week 2,750 new residents flock to its balmy climate; each year the crush fouls more of Florida's once pristine air and water. In draining swampland for home sites, canal builders have ruined vital water supplies and endangered wildlife. Near Naples, one huge coastal development recently erased a lovely mangrove-lined shore in favor of concrete sea walls. Asked to set aside a refuge for the area's few remaining eagles, a spokesman for the builders replied...