Word: mire
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...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...
...those days eastern Oregon was an area of large lakes surrounded by lush, subtropical forests. Hancock's ancient proboscidian had probably lumbered into , a prehistoric mire, got stuck there and died on his feet, his head reaching up to the level where the jawbone was uncovered ages later...