Word: mire
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UMass defender Debbie Belkin, one of two National Team members on the Minutewomen, kept her team alive into the second half, but was unable to shine in the mire of the aggresive Crimson midfield...
...When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...
...best parts of Hawksmoor are the evocations of 18th century London street life, with its whores and beggars, its hordes of homeless, its "Wilderness of dirty rotten Sheds, allways tumbling or takeing Fire, with winding crooked passages, lakes of Mire and rills of stinking Mud, as befits the smokey grove of Moloch." In the eerie interplay between the earlier age and our own, Ackroyd has fashioned a fictional architecture that is vivid, provocative and as clever as, well, the devil...
Nowadays, it seems justices have to waded through a swampy mire of questions such as abortion, school prayer and affirmative action...
...though the Crimson's play threatened to bog down in the mire for much of the first half, the team finally managed to break through at the 38-minute mark...