Word: gumbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face...
...wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
England's Chestnuts, U.S. Gumbo...
...single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community of interest" to a point where a last desperate jump backward will only find us stuck in the gumbo of our own stupidity. 6) And lastly, that the only thing worse than a bully at a peanut stand is a bully in Grand Central Station...
...Will you be so kind to explain to one marooned in the illiterate gumbo of Virginia, just why you-all are excited over a few justified executions for the protection of the Proletarian State? If one has been found out to be an enemy of society, of advancing society if you please, is there any logical argument why this enemy should not be removed with as little ceremony as possible? I find you offering no objections to the fact that in America the ruling class has been in the habit of executing thousands by the simple manner of keeping them...