Word: mire
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...topic which seems to be worrying many Americans is the question of British Socialism. The questions asked in this connection usually amount to "can British get out of the mire?", the mire being the threat of communism and the comparatively low standard of living...
...Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters, to a destroyer squadron in the Mediterranean. The incoming messages are caught...
Almost equaling their runaway in the mud against Boston College two weeks ago, Crimson contestants took first in ten of the 16 events. Rain wreaked havoc, as usual, with weight and field marks, but the mire that bogged down the visitors didn't seem to bother Harvard runners...
That was big talk in a city where voters are registered nearly three to one Republican. Said the Inquirer: "It was not a matter of being a Republican or a Democrat; it was a matter of trying to redeem the city from those who had sunk it in the mire...
...Gazette called on true-red Soviet physicists to "rescue the quantum theory from the mire into which physicists and idealists of all shades and colors have driven it." The "latest gigantic achievements of physics in the domain of liberating atomic energy and the study of cosmic rays," trumpeted the Gazette, "have been made not because of, but in spite of current theory...