Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second, the Council might well set up a Steering Committee to trim and space out some of the less important schemes which bog down Council agenda. The surgery performed by such a committee could be subject to Council review...
Botts in Africa. This well-fed, big-sinewed Cat had grown from a kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with...
Harder Selling. Few businessmen were worried. They did not think that the economy would bog down because of a few soft spots as long as the basic industries were humming. Example: steel mills, operating at capacity for the second week in a row, turned out 1,845,000 tons...
...When Bridie was orphaned, she was disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired out as a servant. It was nice at Miss Anderson's and all would have been well had not her father's wealthy...
...aggressive partisan politics, but was it good for the nation? There was grave danger that the whole session would bog down in futile political wrangling. Said Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "No good can come to the country from a special session of Congress which obviously stems solely from political motives." The greatest danger was that the world would misconstrue a purely domestic fight as evidence of fundamental disagreement over U.S. policies abroad...