Word: mire
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...miles away, swept in to carpet the forest with high explosives. Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm and thermite bombs, setting brushfires that blazed for days. Helicppters thrummed in to deposit entire platoons of infantrymen, and armored personnel carriers rumbled through the mire at 500 yards an hour in hopes of pinning Charlie to the sticking point...
Removing the Mire. Acclaimed by the populace, they encouraged one another at river crossings by recalling Mao's recent speedy swim in the Yangtze and reciting his heroic verse: "I care not that the wind blows and the waves beat; it is better than idly strolling in a courtyard...
...order "to put into practice the spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with filth, these sanitation workers had the loftiest and purest souls...
Cabaret's ambitions are loftier than those of most musicals: it attempts to sketch an era by playing a personal drama against a political one. But the attempt gets lost in a mire of timeless musical cliches, and we are left with a peculiarly ungripping love story...
...overriding issue. Pax has promised a second sizeable contribution to the campaign. The candidate has proven that while he may not be another H. Stuart Hughes, he cannot alternatively be classed in the Arthur Schlesinger mold. Adams has emerged from what William F. Buckley Jr. once described as "the mire of liberalism...