Word: mire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger Mississippians, a number that would frighten our embittered elders, I deplore the prejudice and ugliness of Mississippi politics as displayed in the recent primary elections. When we who love our state have a more powerful voice, we will be an effective instrument for lifting Mississippi from the mire of such as this...
Yesterday's soccer game between the varsity and Tufts was called off by the coaches late in the morning after a solid rain had turned the field into a mire. The game was rescheduled for this afternoon...
Their affair seems to offer each of them a chance of recapturing the hopes of youth. Anthony accepts his own degradation but romantically believes that Christiane has been able to carry her innocence through the mire of the years. Yet nothing has changed. He is still the petulant adolescent and she the woman who can be had but not possessed. Soon Christiane floats away on the superficiality that has always sustained her; Anthony sinks like a stone into the slums "to vanish up obscure alleys, to discover the filthiest restaurants and most squalid lodgings, to fuse with the dirty...
...life is the day that he is born. The film, and Alberto Moravia's novel from which it was drawn, reflect an uncompromising disgust for man and his works. Love, friendship, honesty, are all shams, and everyone, whether by his will or no, is doomed to a mire of depravity and frustration...
...will this afternoon play host to Nichols Junior College and the spirit if not the result will be in sharp opposition of the Laws of Hospitality so revered by the Greeks of the Goldern Age. The attempted sacrilege is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on the Business School mire...