Word: mire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized in factions. Before next year's convention, Goodie Knight, as governor, will probably be able to pick the California delegates personally; if he does, they will be Knight's pawns. Should Nixon force a showdown for control, Goodie will almost certainly beat him and mire down the Nixon-for-President bandwagon. "The best we can do," concedes a Nixon stalwart, "is maybe slip some sneakers...
...third path. If somebody thinks a nation can achieve revolutionary victory alone without unity and assistance from the forces of world revolution, [or] after its victorious revolution stay aloof from the animosity between World Revolution and counterrevolutionaries, then he is against proletarian Internationalism and has fallen into the mire of Nationalism...
...Commission may well sink even further into the political mire; full-scale development of atomic power for industrial purposes will challenge commissioners with potent new problems. Through its power over the licensing of atomic facilities, the allocation of atomic materials, and patent policy, the Commission will play a dominant role in determining the course of that development. Unless the agency recaptures public respect, its decisions can open the way for political brawling that will dwarf the Dixon-Yates struggle...
...last chivalric rite of battle: he decorated Lieut. Geneviéve de Galard Terraube, the only woman nurse in the fortress, with the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. That night too, less than 500 yards from Junon, the Communist infantrymen burrowed close in through the mire. "Everywhere they are in close contact," Dienbienphu radioed GHQ. "Everywhere they are within grenade range. When they attack, the fortress will be ready...
Both Briggs and Princeton goalie Nick Angell came out of the game looking like dripping chimney-sweeps. Briggs played a terrific game, frequently diving head-long into the mire to take goals off the toes of the Princeton forwards. On one save, he knocked one of the uprights askew with his shoulder...