Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale, Army and possibly the Crimson are expected to bog most of the points in the first indoor Hops (switched back from Nonagonals because it suggests more pep) track and field meet at Briggs Cage and the Garden this afternoon and evening...
...English translation that went over so well in "Idomoneo" seemed to bog down in "Giovanni." Recitatives like "What dreadful thing has happened" smacked unfortunately of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Catalogue Aria collapsed. Giovanni's drinking song was taken at half speed, evidently to fit either the language or the voice...
...roughest game of the year. Nine penalties, one of them a major, were dished out and there was cause for plenty more, mostly on the visitors. Only in the second period did Harvard's scoring attack bog down, and that frame saw three Crimson cohorts withdrawn due to injuries...
...discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...
...occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...