单词 | swampland |
例句 | As we left the city behind us for untamed swampland, a strange feeling stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They would be there while the search parties scoured the swamplands and marshes, the rivers, the beaches, the forests, and the surface of the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one night when Khalid spent a long time telling me a story about a shack that belongs to Old Man Martin, down by the river in the swampland. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He was an expert silversmith, praised all over the swampland for the delicacy of his work. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Finally, I make it to the round clearing, where a pond sits before me, the edge of the swampland that stretches out for miles and miles. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Miles of dark swampland lie to either side of the road. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The canals had been dredged from swampland; the picturesque waterfront hacked out of the lakeside by the shovelful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It rose red and solitary from the swampland. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z I looked at the islands of vegetation fenced in within the clusters of willow trees creating the illusion of a heavily forested swampland. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The world that Wilson discovered for himself as a child was the swampland of Florida and Alabama, where he did most of his growing up. Anthill: how biologist EO Wilson turned science into best-selling fiction 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Photograph: Alamy Not many holidaymakers would choose a stay in the grimy, dank swamplands of Yoda’s stomping ground in The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars-inspired holidays – where to feel the Force 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z She got into character by exploring Louisiana’s swamplands, a great deal of which are largely unchanged since the time when Rachel met Newt across the state line in Mississippi. How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Brings History to Life 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The six episodes of the first season have the characters trekking through swamplands, encountering gators, skeet shooting, and listening to country-western LPs. The N-word, in terrible context: Period pieces “Hap and Leonard” and “Underground” expose the long roots of racism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Michot’s primal yawp also resounds from the opening scenes of the swampland fantasy “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which won the Sundance grand jury prize in January, and rolls into theaters this month. At Home With Louis Michot: At Home With Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers 2012-07-04T11:25:23Z The Glory Fires repatriate the two-guitar mesh of the Rolling Stones back toward a raw swampland twang that sounds like the band’s own birthright. New Albums From Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires, Sleaford Mods and Owen Pallett 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Last week, I strolled out of my office one day about 1 p.m. to find lunch, and the transition from air-conditioned building to swampland caused my glasses to fog up. Weeknight Vegetarian: Dressings that showcase herbs — and your salads It’s the last straw: rather than return to the Army, Newton takes refuge in a swampland, among a small group of runaway slaves. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The town serves as safe haven and utopia both, hacked into the swampland by those seeking freedom. Overlooked Black History, in Three New Novels 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “It was glacier land, then beautiful swampland, then they drained that, put in orchards” she said of Skokie. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z A preacher’s daughter disappears in the swamplands of Florida. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Macau's five other casino operators are also planning new projects or expanding existing ones on the Cotai Strip, a stretch of reclaimed swampland that is modeled on the Las Vegas Strip. MGM China gets official OK for 2nd Macau casino 2013-01-09T10:01:04Z The Netted have angel-fair skin and live and work in protected areas on higher ground, while the marginalized, multiracial Surplus live on houseboats or swamplands; their only employment is to “consume.” Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Malcolm, the auctioneer, has been swept away by a flood in the swamplands of Mississippi and finds himself wounded and snarled in a tree. Theater Review: ?Lost on the Natchez Trace? by Jan Buttram 2012-02-17T00:04:34Z As he did in “Ex Machina,” Garland exhibits exquisite taste in manifesting the Shimmer, as well as the fecund Florida swampland it’s overtaking with disquieting efficiency. Review | Natalie Portman stars in the enigmatic, ultimately unsatisfying ‘Annihilation’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Shot around tiny Ottine, Texas, where the filmmaker grew up, the forest, fields and swampland that serve as backdrop for Will's journey look like the 1800s. 'Retrieval' a trek through dilemmas of slavery, manhood 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z No matter how aggressively the show led a fight to drain the nation's swampland of depravity, there was no danger it would ever run dry. Fox cuts down 'Wanted,' but John Walsh isn't done 2011-05-16T22:25:13Z Esdaile's production shifts the action slightly further south, to the swampland surrounding New Orleans, and takes inspiration from the sounds of that region. Behind the scenes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012-10-05T14:45:40Z It’s a heart-wrenching novel about a little girl named Kya growing up by herself in a fishing community in the swamplands of North Carolina, intercut with a young man’s unsolved murder. By the Book: Reese Witherspoon 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The following books will guide you through the state’s swamplands, retirement communities and cultural enclaves, offering outright or de facto defenses of Florida. What to Read Before Your Florida Trip 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The novel was something of a homecoming, returning the biologist, along overgrown neural pathways, to that Alabama swampland of his teenage awakening. Anthill: how biologist EO Wilson turned science into best-selling fiction 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Niegel Smith directs this excavation of the great swamplands of a culturally divided America. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z To this day, no paved roads traverse the swampland separating it from mainland Russia. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Night or day, the swampland looks apocalyptic, like the scene of the end of the world. Commission us: Sex, death and long grass in Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba 2010-10-15T09:19:00Z There the entertainment conglomerate stayed — until recently, when it wandered off Disney World into the swampland of Florida politics. Disney hasn’t found itself in this much trouble since 1941 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Mortensen plays identical twins: Agustín is a wealthy doctor in the city; Pedro is a loser who still lives in the remote Argentinian swampland of their childhood and is mixed up in shady business. Everybody Has a Plan – review 2013-05-30T21:01:01Z “Glengarry Glen Ross” concerns the hustlers and grinders of Premiere Properties, who specialize in “investment opportunities” of Florida swampland, sold primarily to unsuspecting suburbanites under the guise of many-strings-attached prizes and ticking-clock options. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Darker sky and earth recede as Rousseau’s daubed light breathes air into the clotted, gloomy swampland. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The district, created by Florida lawmakers in 1967, gave Disney unusual abilities to develop the former swamplands as one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations by issuing bonds and providing emergency services. DeSantis says he's 'moved on' from Disney district fight as the company doubles down 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z He frames it like this: People thought Walt Disney World, built in a Florida swampland, was a crazy idea. They envision the world’s tallest flagpole in this Maine town. Instead of uniting, it is dividing 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z ‘The State of Florida has flourished in the years since Walt Disney himself surveyed many acres of swampland in 1963 and dreamed of the possibility of Walt Disney World.’ Column: Disney lawsuit shows Ron DeSantis at his bullying, bumbling worst 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Then he ran and ran, crossing more swampland and a river, until he came to a village. Opinion | Escape from Russia: A young college student tells his tale 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Others were peddled almost as cynically as Florida swamplands: “ocean view” cities nearly 30 miles from the ocean, and other “view” towns whose vistas were desert desolation. Moneta, Tropico, Lordsburg — where did L.A.’s phantom towns vanish to? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z He’d survived the attack, but it was only the beginning of a three-night fight for survival in the Florida swampland, he told The Washington Post. A gator ripped off his arm. Then he got lost in a swamp for 3 nights. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Lush swamplands can create conditions conducive to the coal formation. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z “The State of Florida has flourished in the years since Walt Disney himself surveyed many acres of swampland in 1963 and dreamed of the possibility of Walt Disney World,” the lawsuit says. Column: Disney lawsuit shows Ron DeSantis at his bullying, bumbling worst 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The 1967 law allowed the company to transform a sprawling area of undeveloped swampland into Florida’s biggest private employer and a massive driver of tourism. Disney Florida fallout: Taxpayers sue DeSantis for axing company's special tax status 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “Nobody wanted it. Nobody could see anything positive for the future of the swampland.” Buffeted by weather, a historic Black town strives to endure 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z People didn’t stray far from beaten paths in the Florida swampland, Merda thought, so he figured one was close. A gator ripped off his arm. Then he got lost in a swamp for 3 nights. 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z For example, he said, South Philadelphia swampland drained for the nation’s 150th birthday celebration is now home to the city’s sports stadiums and public parkland. Commission to honor America’s 250th birthday is ‘toxic,’ lawsuit says 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The Barretts’ adversary now was an Anchorage businessman named George Brown, who already was getting sued by Middle East investors over some worthless swampland north of the city. How a family secret (or two) led a Seattle attorney to his grandfather’s Alaskan ghost town 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z These communities were especially significant in colonies with accessible hideouts and large numbers of Africans, such as Jamaica and Brazil, but they also took shape in the Carolina swamplands. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Conspiracy theories first surface in the right-wing swamplands and spread through social media channels. Putin's invasion of Ukraine exposes the Fox News-QAnon feedback loop 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z For the last two years, her favorite show has been “Octonauts,” about a diverse band of animals who explore the oceans and swamplands in vessels called GUPs. The Boy King of YouTube 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Marion’s men exhausted “Bloody” Tarleton’s troops, leading them on fruitless swampland chases, before French allies arrived and together they drove the British to surrender. South Carolina’s 250th tells revolution story, warts and all 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z At dawn, a pair of Belarusian soldiers roused the migrants and escorted them through swampland with water up to their knees until they reached a spot where a 12-foot-wide river separated the two countries. 'We were like a football,' Iraqi migrant says after Belarus odyssey 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Ever since the Florida land boom of the 1920s, when con men notoriously flogged swampland to unsuspecting buyers, people just can’t be deterred from moving here and scooping up properties — often sight unseen. Opinion | So what happens to Florida’s economy when low-wage workers can no longer afford to live there? 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Ponchatoula is set amid swampland, with rivers to the east and west, so many of the outdoor activities involve hunting and fishing. ‘Looking for major space,’ buyers snap up homes in small Southern towns 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Roughly 84,000 pieces of the space shuttle were found after extensive searches through swamplands, forests and pastures. From a Texas dental office to the Canadian tundra, here’s where space debris has crashed to Earth 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The gear, which helps scientists monitor changes in the surrounding marsh, is easy to miss in this expanse of water and swampland the size of Delaware. Rerouting the Mississippi River could build new land—and save a retreating coast 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Marin City took shape during World War II, as some of the thousands of new arrivals who flooded the Bay Area to work in shipyards were housed on the swamplands north of Sausalito. Coronavirus batters finances of African American healthcare centers in the Bay Area 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Inland is a wide, low basin, just a few feet above sea level, previously swampland that Ross’ crew drained and graded into eight holes now edged by palms, bunkers and lakes. Seminole Golf Club, one of golf's most exclusive enclaves, is ready for its TV debut - Golf Digest 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Brahma hopes to refine the swampland conjecture to something that would not bar inflation entirely. Will String Theory Finally Be Put to the Experimental Test? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z With entire communities turned into swamplands, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a State of Emergency over the weekend, estimating that more than 1,000 structures were likely damaged. Flood-soaked Mississippi braces for additional rain as Alabama declares emergency 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “AutoAmerica” is half underwater and populated by two groups of people: the “Netted” of the higher ground and the “Surplus,” who live on swampland. Cults, climate change, dystopia, and also poetry and community, all this coming week 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He visited Makoko, a slum just off mainland Lagos that is largely a floating community of wooden homes on swampland. AP Interview: Joshua out to regain aura, belts in rematch 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Thawing permafrost is making pastures collapse or become swampland. In fast-thawing Siberia, radical climate change is warping the earth beneath the feet of millions By then, there was no more marshland left in Queens to put a LeFrak City, no more swampland in the Bronx for another Co-op City. How ‘Developer’ Became Such a Dirty Word 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The family was later sent to a camp hastily built atop swampland in Rohwer, Ark. What is a 'concentration camp'? It's an old debate that mostly started in California 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “The first settlers said this place was a pitiful site because it was swampland,” said Evan Dame, a town council member. For a historic African American town in Prince George’s, tradition and change 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The grueling Latin America trek forces migrants to spend at least a week trudging across swampland and hiking through mountainous rainforests in the lawless Darien Gap that is the only link between Panama and Colombia. U.S. dream pulls African migrants in record numbers across Latin... 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z More than 600 holes of golf are on property in this swampland about an hour from Orlando. The Villages crime blotter: A woman's son steals a golfer's set of clubs, and we have a lot of questions - Golf Digest 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The uninvited denizens of South Florida’s wildlands, woodlands, marshlands and swamplands have left an indelible - and possibly irreversible - mark on the ecosystem. Program shows promise of removing pythons from Everglades 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z First there was D-Wade, who kicked off retirement on Wednesday by chugging rosé and chopping it around some immaculately manicured Florida swampland. Even Michael B. Jordan has come down with a bad case of Tiger fever - Golf Digest 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Sure enough, that once-sleepy swampland is now a legendary part of the Southern White House along with nearby Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private home and social club. Donald Trump's Florida golf pro shares his life lessons on 'Ed Henry's Front Row Seat' 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z They said construction destroyed centuries-old cypress trees and animal habitat in Louisiana swampland, and they said a pipeline spill would do further damage. Pipeline complete. Litigation lingers 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In his first weeks, Mr. DeSantis moved aggressively to bolster Everglades restoration projects, and his administration has sued to block a new exploratory well in the famous swampland. Ron DeSantis scores with Florida voters in new poll 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Reelfoot Lake is less a lake than a system of bayous, creeks and swampland connected by areas of shallow open water. Opinion | The Eagles of Reelfoot Lake 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “There’s a swampland beyond this. According to legend, that swampland divides us physically and spiritually.” The Race to Save Colombia's Uncontacted Tribes from Outsiders 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z In the metaphorical swamp that is Washington, “intolerant” and “sensitive” are not generally seen as positive, but in a city built across what was once actual swampland, fragile organisms are signs of aquatic health. District streams suffer from urban pollution and construction, report finds 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Thousands of people were shipped from Virginia to clear swampland in the deep south and enrich a country that would not claim them, not even as human beings. Can exposing Americans to its savage, racist history save Charlottesville? | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “If you kill it, you leave him with the myth: ‘I would have delivered all these wonderful things if only those swampland Democrats hadn’t blocked it,” Levy said. Trump’s new NAFTA faces skeptics in now- Democrat-led House 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z First, workers bring in excavators to cut deep trenches across the swampland. Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z In 1938, the workforce of mostly black women cut down thick underbrush and trees and contended with snakes and swampland. Botanical garden searches for the black women who built it 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Strange formations of cypress trees known as knees pushed up through the swampland. Frog symphony and ancient trees in a verdant Louisiana swamp 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z If we think wildfires and hurricanes are just a statistical aberration, well … If we think expanding populations of disease-carrying ticks, spreading northward, will reverse, then you should buy my Florida swampland. Carbon fee: ‘An investment’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The University of Washington leased its swampland to the city for a landfill where garbage would be piled and topped with soil for 40 years, eventually creating new waterfront property. How much of a burden can we be to Union Bay before the strain is too much? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Beneath its artificial shine lies dark, primeval swampland; a gulf divides the seen from the unseen. Lauren Groff’s short stories pulse with hidden malevolence 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Proving just how cynical swampland politics can be, most of the Republican politicians and lobbyists debasing themselves daily for Trump once treated the reality-TV star with open contempt. Opinion | Democrats may be in for a surprise in 2018 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It helped pay for new ribbons of asphalt on roads, an airport upgrade and the filling of swampland. Russian City’s Dazzling New Soccer Stadium Outshines Its Team 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z They see the White House and pretty much every other governmental building in Washington, D.C., solely as swampland to be drained. Alabama editorial roundup 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z While Botswana’s northern swampland was ridden with disease-carrying tsetse flies and malaria, Mr. Selby and his clients traversed the bush in style. Harry Selby, genteel safari guide from a bygone era, dies at 92 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Most of the inhabited areas of Bangladesh are swampland and areas that have been created by sand that comes from rivers. Opinion | Swallowed by the Sea 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In training exercises in a mock Afghan village constructed here on a base amid swampland, the U.S. Opinion | We’re finally letting the Middle East fight its own battles 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z And in parts of western Germany known as the Rhineland, it’s ubiquitous — the leftover remains of 25-million-year-old swampland. In shadow of Germany’s climate conference, a village disappears to make way for coal 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z And if you believe that, we have some swampland in Washington to sell you. Editorials from around New York 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Much of Florida’s southwest coast is uninhabited swampland, including a large section of Everglades National Park. Storm surge warnings: Life-threatening, will cover a house 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z He’s just living a really simple life, in the swamplands of Florida and he sells crocodile eggs. The Jean-Michel Basquiat I knew… 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Pastureland and swampland, cane fields and forests alike began to look like a mud-clouded, Texas version of ark country. As Houston Looks to Recover, Small Towns Now Bear the Brunt 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z These pumps allowed the city's swamplands, most of which had previously been too wet to build upon, to be settled during the 1920s. Floods and political crisis are back in New Orleans 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Straining credulity, it nevertheless works remarkably well, with its minor shifts in tactics and scenery — from boring highway to sinister swampland — providing more than enough nail-biting action. Review | ‘Kidnap’: Halle Berry plays a mother who’ll stop at nothing to rescue her abducted son 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Three days I walked with Eberhart, through swampland and farmland and urban wasteland. The man who went on a hike – and never stopped walking 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Gather the media, detonate explosives, remove rubble, return the footprints of these massive buildings to native, natural swampland. Paul Ryan is afraid to lead 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In the early eighties, she learned that several acres, mostly swampland, had been sold without her knowledge, and that a developer planned to build a subdivision there. Why Sally Yates Stood Up to Trump 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z When the Mayor of Evansville, Indiana banned the festival at the last minute, organizers scrambled to move it to a bend of lawless swampland known as Bull Island. From Altamont to Fyre: a history of the worst music festival disasters 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z When she first saw the desolate stretch of coastal swamplands, Griselda Barradas said she felt sure that her harrowing search had finally ended. A mother who dug in a Mexican mass grave to find the 'disappeared' finally learns her son's fate 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “You better be a little careful about just calling Louisiana a bunch of swampland and disparaging other parts of the country,” he said. Drain the swamp? No, let’s just move it, Rep. Chaffetz suggests. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Much of the Midwest was shallow swampland, left by the recession of the glaciers thousands of years ago. The Only Way to ‘Drain the Swamp’ for Good 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z From the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, farmers in the Marais district of Paris transformed swampland into productive gardens and manipulated microclimates to grow peas, artichokes, figs and apricots. Agriculture: Sowing the city : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But thousands of acres of cleared and drained swampland still burned, and the resulting smog triggered pollution alerts across the Strait of Malacca in Singapore. Indonesia Tries New Tactics to Douse Annual Firestorms 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z I was going to visit the swampland of my soul, make peace with death, and become one with the universe. The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The refuge, directly in Hermine’s path, features vast swamplands inhabited by alligators. Hermine brings cancellation, postponement of weekend events 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Our ancestors thought that “miasma”—the misty, vaporous stenches that waft from swampland—caused fatal diseases. The Only Way to ‘Drain the Swamp’ for Good 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Then he made what was known as a “corduroy road”—laying logs to form roads over swampland. Margaret Atwood’s Wild Childhood 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In a statement, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office says the plane was spotted in a “swampland” outside Coral Springs. Small plane crashes in South Florida swampland 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z With her, he starts another family, setting up his swampland community and delivering sermons on self-sufficiency, altruism and the immorality of slavery. ‘Free State of Jones’ reveals a little-known chapter of Civil War history 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Rogelio Bautista's farmstead is nestled in Upstate New York's Black Dirt region, so named for the dark-colored, highly fertile soil that is unique to this stretch of onetime swampland. Why this start-up wants to put vegetables you’ve never heard of on your dinner table 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In Florida, the snakes have led to large declines in raccoons, rabbits and bobcats, while the nutria have ripped up ecologically sensitive swampland in Lousiana. Rancho Palos Verdes to continue peacock eviction program 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z But Democrats pushed back, saying that times change and Congress needs to adapt to the fact that a district carved from swampland with few residents is now a major metropolis. House Republicans take unprecedented step to upend local D.C. law 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But if Walgreens ends up with swampland, it’s not Silicon Valley’s fault. Don’t Blame Silicon Valley for Theranos 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z They might have been better off buying swampland in Florida. Years after the Great Recession, Chicago-area homeowners are still trying to recover 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Because if you do, my family owns some swampland – er, I mean highly prized and valuable real estate in Florida — that we would be happy to sell you. Bernie supporters could blow this election: Why refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton will only make everything worse 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Sugar-cane fields and swampland will be reflooded and turned into wetlands as part of what the Corps describes as “mitigation” work. Corps eyeing sugar cane fields for mitigation project 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z South Carolina Transportation Secretary Christy Hall said Friday that the problems are on 18 separate small bridges that go over the Black and Pocotaligo rivers and surrounding swampland in Clarendon County. The Latest: Worst floods may be over on coast, official says 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Nero’s father, David Nero Sr., was the son of a freed slave who, with his brothers, bought up swampland in cotton country, drained and cleared it for farming. Memoirs by seniors offer lessons worth sharing 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z In July, Mazzullo had a crew of staff and volunteers working on a section of the CDT near Bowl Creek repairing a rotted out turnpike - an elevated trail that crosses swampland. Dogs take wild solo hike into Bob Marshall Wilderness 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z It was built on swampland between the banks of the River Paraguay and the edge of the city, next to a huge rubbish dump. Pregnant at 10 and abortion's not an option - BBC News 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The 62-day course, which teaches students "how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead Soldiers during small unit combat operations," includes training in woodlands, mountainous terrain and Florida swampland. U.S. Army to open elite Ranger School to all genders 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The area was to be a “city within a city,” rising from swamplands, self-contained, with a population of two hundred and fifty thousand. Our Empty Plot in New Orleans 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Beyond that issue, it was important to him that people not forget that his project was not solely about this small parcel of boar-crossed, mosquito-fogged swampland. The Making of a President 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The idea that D.C. used to be swampland is a cliche, especially among politicians who like to bash the city. Five myths about summer weather 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Unable to swim and clinging to floating debris, he was deposited in swampland where he remained for 18 days, surviving on instant noodles and soft drinks he found floating around him, The Japan Times reports. Boy Who Lost Family Signs With Soccer Team That Helped Him 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z And more than 1.5 million people have fled their homes, the vast majority to swampland villages where they hope rising waters during the rainy season will keep them safe from marauding soldiers. As South Sudan Crisis Worsens, ‘There Is No More Country’ 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Police officials said at the time her remains were found that they believed that she drowned while trying to reach Ocean Parkway through the surrounding swampland after knocking on a door in nearby Oak Beach. Funeral for Shannan Gilbert Is Outlet for Family’s Grief, and Suspicion 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z "The swamplands were radically changed and the led to the demise of several species," she added. Giant caiman packed fierce bite 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The Lake Chad area - a vast maze of tiny islands and swampland sheltering thousands of Nigerian refugees - is thought to be serving as a hideout for the Islamist insurgent group. Boko Haram attacks island on Niger side of Lake Chad: sources 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Some in the courtroom started calling it the “Jed Clampett defense,” after the lead character in “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV series who got rich after tapping a gusher in his swampland. Are C.E.O.s That Talented, or Just Lucky? 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z The meandering Nets, now in Brooklyn, managed to lose Julius Erving from Long Island and got lost in the swamplands of New Jersey in an arena now being shut down. Martin Brodeur: A New Jersey Devil and New York Icon 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z However, Istanbul settled a few hundred years earlier than Paris and developed much quicker, growing to become grand and prosperous when Paris was still swampland. 10 Surprisingly Affordable Retirement Hotspots 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In a dramatic attempt to revive interest, a trail blazing expedition of ten cars filled with twenty-three white men and two Indian guides made a perilous three-week trip across the Everglades swampland. Tamiami Trail changed the course of Florida history 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Here we have what looks to be a very old-growth forest, perhaps swampland. Why Destiny Was The Best And Worst Game Of 2014 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Suburbs colonized the former swamplands beyond the Miami airport, the orange and palmetto groves east of Tampa, and the farmland near Fort Myers. The Education of Jeb Bush 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, Jewish settlers hired residents to drain adjacent swampland. In Israel, secluded Arab village wants to be a tourist must-see 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Built on swampland, tamed by the advent of mosquito control and air conditioning, Florida becomes more culturally Southern heading north of Miami, which likes to consider itself the capital of Latin America. Florida overtakes New York as third most populous U.S. state 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Swainson’s warbler — a secretive, rarely seen songbird that nests in the swamplands of the southeastern United States — may no longer be so hard to find. A New Home for a Secretive Songbird 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Still, the Golden Pass project remains a somnolent hub of high technology and giant structures perched incongruously in alligator-infested swampland. A U-Turn for a Terminal Built in Texas to Import Natural Gas 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Then there is Paul Weiner, one of the three owners of this contaminated plot of swampland. Gotham: In Plan to Dump Contaminated Soil, Classic New Jersey Politics Emerge 2014-02-25T04:52:28Z In the 1930s, the Nazis selected swampland near the lake to construct a university building, an initial step in their dream to remake Berlin as the capital of a sprawling empire. Berlin Journal: Where N.S.A. Kept Watch in Cold War, Artists Now Find Refuge 2014-02-05T02:05:45Z French police officers moving in to try to evict protesters from protected swampland in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, north-western France, where the government wants to build a new airport. Day in pictures: 22 November 2013 2013-11-22T13:40:44Z Soon we left the flat swampland behind and were out over the Pechora Sea. On Russia's controversial Arctic oil rig 2013-10-07T12:00:58Z Oil theft begins in the labyrinthine creeks and waterways of the Niger Delta, a swampland area spanning over 10,000 square miles that has long been blighted by kidnappings, militant uprisings and gangland violence. Nigeria's stolen oil is sold and laundered abroad: report 2013-09-19T21:08:34Z Savar is a relatively new manufacturing zone and was once swampland. Bangladesh building collapse: factories supplied shops in west 2013-04-24T19:54:32Z Yet neither he nor State Assemblyman N. Nick Perry felt that the area, though built on swampland, merited being in a federal flood zone before. Flood Zone Is Right for Canarsie, Residents Say 2013-01-31T03:16:31Z Think of the speculative housing developments in Florida swampland that were never occupied, next to golf courses that never got built. Housing Stocks Face Trouble 2013-01-26T00:20:12Z The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the lot’s former owner, traded it with a developer, Barron Collier Companies, for a piece of swampland in Florida. A Vacant Lot in Phoenix Offers Refugees a Taste of Home 2012-11-26T15:43:13Z That’s where I live and it’s a canal flowing through filled-in swampland—and one of the nation’s newest Superfund sites thanks to a legacy of industrial pollution and sewage overflows. Update: Hurricane Sandy Hits U.S. East Coast, What You Need to Know 2012-10-29T22:45:07.447Z Identity is a complex issue in the quixotic Jewish homeland established by Stalin here in the mosquito-infested swampland of Russia’s Far East, some 20 years before the founding of Israel. Birobidzhan Journal: Jewish Homeland in Birobidzhan, Russia, Retains Appeal 2012-10-04T01:54:46Z I’ve used Google Maps and Navigator to help me find clients in the remote swamplands of Florida and BBQ ribs in central Nashville. 9 Smartphone Apps Every Salesperson Must Have 2012-09-10T14:21:43Z Building on solid foundations was an architectural principle understood by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, yet we may be constructing our castles on swampland. We must be open about our mistakes 2012-09-05T17:20:07.960Z Until now. Paya helps automate and write the license between buyer and seller, paving new ground in the sticky swampland of online copyright. Now For Sale: YouTube Videos And Facebook Photos 2012-06-27T13:02:15Z Adelson later made another big bet in the southern Chinese gambling hub, staking his fortune on the Venetian Macau, a massive resort casino on reclaimed former swampland, that his rivals initially scoffed at. The criminal probe of Sheldon Adelson's casino empire 2012-02-08T23:15:13Z Back then, four decades before Disney World rose from swampland, the towering bald cypress was the star attraction in these parts. Disbelief Still as Florida Reacts to Burning of 3,500-Year-Old Tree 2012-01-21T03:00:12Z Within the sounds, the marsh and swamplands will disappear in a similar fashion to the Louisiana marshes. A real sea change 2011-12-23T18:45:12.097Z Bangkok’s international airport sits on swampland to the east of the capital. Thai Economy Faces Contraction As Floods Worsen 2011-10-20T09:25:10Z They all thrived in the warm swamplands — similar to Louisiana today — that dominated this area in the Cretaceous period about 110 million years ago. Dinosaur hunters make curious find in Prince George?s County 2011-09-22T00:50:13Z Normally the first-loss holders would exist to serve as a buffer, like swampland absorbing the storm surge from a hurricane, except these aren’t normal times. Swiss Must Save UBS’s Bonus Pool or Die Trying: Jonathan Weil 2011-09-22T00:22:01Z One new book is “The Bayou Trilogy,” a collection of crime novels by Daniel Woodrell set in Louisiana swampland. Vacationing Obama reading novels spanning epic migrations, Bayou murders, mid-century Chicago 2011-08-20T16:26:12Z The sheik also owns Fasig-Tipton, which leads wiseguys, of which there are many, to wonder if the sheik is not selling swampland to himself. Postcard From Saratoga Springs: Project Runway, Four-Legged Edition 2011-08-10T00:04:56Z More than 5,000 houses are affected so far, mostly to the east of the city and along the banks of the Avon River, where many were built on former swampland. Aftershocks Pose Major Obstacles to Rebuilding New Zealand City 2011-07-14T19:56:49Z Somehow—I don't know how—we got lost on the swamplands, and, losing our bearings, we found ourselves presently within the Confederate lines. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z The water is deposited into the Peace River watershed, and the clay and sand deposits are turned into orange groves, swampland or forests. Judge's ruling extends Mosaic's Florida mine woes 2011-07-11T15:38:33Z In the 1930s, Mussolini drained much of the swampland, and in the 1950s tractors replaced the cattle, which were raised for farm work as well as for meat. Alberese Journal: Italian Cowboys Refuse to Ride Off Into History 2011-07-05T01:35:10Z Memos show that the refinery’s concrete foundations were built without a thin layer of plastic that might prevent the concrete pilings from drawing moisture from the reclaimed swampland underneath. The Fear of a Toxic Rerun 2011-06-30T00:20:10Z Violence also remains likely in the country's oil-rich Niger Delta, a region of swamplands and mangroves about the size of Portugal. Nigeria Prepares for Vote in Wake of Deaths 2011-04-26T09:57:43Z The woods and swamplands where people’s bodies have been discovered are different: No one usually lays flowers there. Densely Populated, but No Shortage of Grisly Dumping Sites 2011-04-14T02:00:21Z In time: twoeight! —rivers are tunneled: trestles cross oozy swampland: wheels repeating the same gesture remain relatively stationary: rails forever parallel return on themselves infinitely. Sour Grapes A Book of Poems 2011-03-25T02:00:10.780Z The country beyond the swampland afforded much better traveling. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z As it turned out for Pisarcik, Philadelphia — where the fans once booed Santa Claus — was Disneyland compared with the North Jersey swampland where his reputation was buried. Pisarcik?s Fumble, and Recovery 2010-12-21T03:00:24Z Obama's stimulus has jump-started a project to restore some drained southwest Florida swampland that was once destined to be become a resort community. Florida Everglades Cleanup: A River of Morass 2010-12-11T14:15:00Z Fans in Green and Blue Bring Drab Stadium to Life They do not speak German, French and Italian at the obsessively gray stadium in the swamplands. Sports of The Times: Jets and Giants Fans Bring Drab Stadium to Life 2010-08-17T01:29:00Z "This is the first moment I've felt like maybe we could lose some of our precious swamplands." Catastrophe in the Gulf: How Bad Could It Get? 2010-06-03T09:05:00Z "That spectrum basically went from swampland to oceanfront property," says Brad Bowman, a community activist in Delray Beach, Fla., who advocates for municipalities to create their own 4G networks rather than rely on commercial carriers. How Craig McCaw Built a 4G Network on the Cheap 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z The low-lying swampland here smells of sulfur on a good day, and was once the preferred dumping ground for political opponents of the Duvaliers, Haiti’s brutal rulers from the 1950s to the ’80s. 2010-01-19T04:23:00Z His feet thudded on rock, slithered on grass, shuffled through the mire of a narrow swampland. The Buttoned Sky Below them, the river was widening out to the point where it resembled swampland more than a waterway. Black Man's Burden From the Gulf to the Potomac The swampland that is Washington is feeling the effects of the BP mess too. Catastrophe in the Gulf: How Bad Could It Get? 2010-06-03T09:05:00Z Farrell gave it up and limped outside, to stand scowling unhappily at the dreary expanse of swampland. Pet Farm Niobe was an ideal herbarium for growing the swampland plant from which the complex of alkaloids was extracted. To Choke an Ocean It was not the first time they had heard that voice calling since they had ventured deep into the unpeopled swampland about which the downriver settlements had fearful stories to whisper. The Record of Currupira Riverland, marshland, swampland, shore and meadow, all offered themselves in the most diversified forms. The Adventures of Bobby Orde In a few minutes we were clear of the pine-wood, and came out upon a piece of swampland, where the stunted willow bushes just showed their tops above the surface of the snow. The Big Otter It was growing very late, and after her struggle across the swampland between the lines she was exhausted in body if not in mind. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier "Haven't I heard that snakes abound here?" asked Faith timorously, as they ascended the stone steps leading up the hill from the swampland below. All Aboard A Story for Girls Here the stunted, unnatural growth of the swamplands had given away to the more normal vegetation of the jungle-clad lowlands. Voodoo Planet There were times when all his journeying through steaming swamplands and forests of teak and satin-wood and over indigo lagoons and mountain-passes of moonlit desolation seemed utterly and unfathomably foolish. Never-Fail Blake Summer lingered in the garden but on the ridge the nights were cool and in the swamplands, Hughie said, already the maples were coloring with a hint of colder weather. Kenny He had been there in winter hunting bears when all the swampland was locked by ice. The Last Trail There were sounds in the deeps of the swamplands that she did not recognize, either. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret What balanced there now, as if walking the treacherous surface of the swampland, was no animal. Voodoo Planet He merely recalled that he had been compelled to eat of disagreeable things and face undesirable emergencies, to drink of the severed Water-vine, to partake of monkey-steak and broiled parrot, to sleep in poisonous swamplands. Never-Fail Blake |
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