Word: mire
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complicated sense of humor, there might be enough to stir the ready laugh in the sight of a group of men on the ground jumping up, running forward a few steps, and then making a head-on dive to the ground again, ploughing through the cinders or the mire...
...politics, talking about national defence, always talking, always bluffing, playing up to the sluggishness, indifference or ignorance of the mass, or boosting short-cut enthusiasms. Nothing is done. Every minute calls for action. And the fact is that each year one War Department sinks deeper and deeper into a mire of incompetence and chaos...