Word: mire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harlem junior-high-school teacher of his all-girl classes: "You've got to get between them before they start fighting-they don't just scratch; they dig in and bring away skin and meat." Said another instructor: "I have to fight to avoid sinking into the mire of their emotions." Said a Brooklyn science teacher: "I have to be 90% warden, 7% wet nurse and 3% teacher...
...crying over spilled juleps and buckle down to hard work. He takes off for New Orleans with his wife, teenage daughter and son, and sets himself up in the budding cottonseed oil business. But the other Currains lack Trav's gift for walking clean-footed through the ' mire of Reconstruction days. Wife Enid dawdles in bed till noon and takes an occasional snifter of opium to blot out the memory of magnolias. Daughter Lucy commits the heresy of falling in love with a Yankee lieutenant from Maine. (Trav actually likes the young man.) Son Peter turns Dixie chauvinist...
...mire of wishful thinking, Dean Inge lifts the whole field of religion. He is a fearless seeker after spiritual truth...
Loss of self love is the only way through which the individual cast avoid the repetitive mire of modern society, John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House and professor of Greek, told capped-and-gowned seniors assembled in Memorial Church yesterday afternoon...
...Economic, One Churchillian. Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler is determinedly opposed to an early election. He needs time to pull Britain's finances out of the mire, and his arguments have been overriding. But the new spring zephyrs from Moscow have given 78-year-old Winston Churchill at least a couple of good reasons for wanting to extend his and his party's lease on power...