Word: bog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunity to create a grand new design for the future of Europe. More specifically, it can be a prime indicator of whether the present trend toward detente in Europe will develop into an era of genuine peace. But there is also a danger that the conference could bog down and become little more than a roundelay of ritual and rhetoric. Much depends on the Soviet Union, which has been pressing for a security conference of some sort for nearly two decades...
...former P.O.W.s, along with their wives and friends and one Playboy Playmate, the occasion was one of joy that not even a downpour could diminish. Most of them squished happily through the bog that had once been the White House lawn. One veteran of a Viet Nam prison remarked, "It's not the first time I've sat in the mud to eat, but at least this time I have a chair...
...Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement. Congressional Democrats fretted that the U.S. was about to bog down in still another quagmire...
...Toward the end of the race, J.R. (Quirk) and I were running together," said Harvard's Marsh Jones, who was Harvard's final scorer in 11th place. "We cut over and ended up going through a bog, and that just broke our momentum. J.R. managed to keep going and caught Steve Hamel and Joe Crowley (both of Northeastern) who had gone...
...Israel, on the other hand, could very well provoke another full-scale war between themselves. Neither seems to want that; even if the Jarring talks get nowhere, both governments are apparently amenable to another round of U.S.-sponsored talks aimed at reopening the Suez Canal. But if peace discussions bog down now, the Middle East's indecisive year of decision could easily be followed by a year of debacle...