Word: mire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those friendly Kansas voices asking permission to strike this or that "target." One sensed an eerie beauty in the way the bombs cascaded through the sky, and in the answering orange flames that surged up out of the jungle. There was little bloodshed in Lawrence, Kans. We could ad mire the skill with which the makeup men decorated the actors' faces with red streaks, but we could keep telling ourselves that it was not real blood, and there was not much of it anyway, nothing gory. In Cambodia, blood...
Chicago's mayoral race goes down to the wire, and the mire...
...winter and not quite spring. It is something in between, a few weeks transcending transition to become a season in itself. First comes a slow drip. Then a tentative trickle. Then the melt begins in earnest: a rush, a gurgle, a cascade. The earth squirts, muck and mire suck at boots, downhill becomes a torrent, uphill becomes a bog. Snowbanks dissolve, flowing over ground already saturated. The frost comes out of the earth, and a normally flat, hard roadbed melts into mud three feet and four feet deep...
...ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great, vague process. Though words were hard to sunder from the sublunary mire of things, art could become intrinsically abstract, as pure an example of internal harmony as music...
...distinguish it but a red door. They hope that Herriot will resemble Simon Ward, the actor who impersonated him in the TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small. But they see a ruddy, pleasant, 64-year-old grandfather, caparisoned in jacket and tie even when stepping through the mire of cattle pens. His voice bears no taint of the Yorkshire dialect permeating his books. When someone asks him a question, Herriot replies "Aye" in the accent that betrays his Glasgow origins...