Word: mire
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...that gloomy expectation, WPBoss Donald Nelson last week named a five-man board to head the $150,000,000 Smaller War Plants Corp., told them to get these little businessmen out of the mire...
...marched his prisoners through the bloody mire...
...citizens last week engaged in a lively debate over the extent of the nation's illiteracy. Bogging down in a mire of statistics, the debate proved mainly that most Americans can read & write better than they can figure...
...Harvard squad needs anything to make it hungry for victory tonight, it merely has to recall last year's fiasco when a distinctly underdog Yale five rose up on its hind lags and slapped the Crimson down twice in row to throw as otherwise mediocre season into the mire...
...kinds of weather on a 2,000-mile battle front), the Nazis had other excuses for the prolongation of the struggle. Wrote a German reporter attached to the Nazi Army: "This war is the driest of all wars. . . . Down deep with the pail-up it came with mire and mud. On to the next well. It yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape...