Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining the reasons for the Allied bog-down in Italy (see below), General Alexander said he could not see an end to the war before next year. General Eisenhower had not publicly altered his prediction made last Christmas and repeated in August that 1944 could bring the end-but, as the Supreme Commander, he had a right to change his mind without saying...
...wish I had space to tell you the special steps we had to take to get the full Invasion story into our editions printed in Mexico City, BogÓta, SÃo Paulo, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, Cairo, Teheran, New Delhi, Sydney, and Honolulu and still get the issue out on time. It is a story of wirephoto, of plane delivery, of special teletype hookups and of wonderful cooperation from many friends of TIME-a story that fills seven pages double-spaced...
...rules of the game, the Russian advance ought soon to bog down. The spring floods should halt them-just as mud should long ago have halted them. The irony is that the early spring, which produced mud weeks before the usual time, has produced gradual thaws so that the usual spring floods may not occur at all. At least, the Germans cannot count on them...
...Guardia's Answer. News like this made New York City's fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia explode before a Congressional committee. Said the Little Flower: Unless Congress takes effective action on food production and distribution, "the whole administration of food is going to bog down-and hell is going to break loose in this country...
...Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government...