Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Burggraf of the Gold Coasters turned in the biggest splash of the evening by winning the 50-yard breast stroke in 33.1 seconds, while Lowell's Bog Good-speed repeated his consistently good work of last Thursday...
Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government...
Under the assumed name of John Christy Moran, "a combination of my uncle's name and Aunt Mary Anne's" he was holding down a Cape Cod cranberry bog when he recognized his picture in a Boston paper under a $1000 reward caption last Saturday. His real name and old associations flashed back to him, and he quickly telegraphed his parents from an Orleans drug store...
Point of Rest. Whether the champagne was buoyant enough to lift agreement from the bog of stubborn deadlock, none knew at week's end. But the attitude of both U.S. and Russian delegates indicated that at Byrnes's private dinner U.S. policy was expressed more firmly than it had ever been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia...
Berlin's new hit is actually 13 years old. It was first sung in 1933 by prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp as they marched off to drain the nearby peat bogs. Prisoners secretly wrote it on barracks walls, whispered it at slave labor chores; it became the favorite song of the German underground. Anti-Nazi Germans took it to Spain with them, taught it to their comrades in the International Brigade. As The Peat-Bog Soldiers it was brought to the U.S. by Loyalist veterans, recorded by Paul Robeson...