Word: mire
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...thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men-who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people -whose keen vision and unbending determination to extricate the men, women, and children of the country from the mire of disintegration and disillusionment, has made him the most beloved and exemplary character ever to occupy the nation's most important post-and so on- countless incidents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision illuminate the dark recesses of a nation's folly...
...four years would constitute a net gain. But a policy of blanket condemnation, of unadulterated negativism could not and should not win the next election. The voter requires a plan of action, well-formulated ideas from the elephant before they will let him pull the national chariot out of mire into which the donkey, according to G.O.P. version, has drawn...
...ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor. When a Governor makes a mockery of our courts and juries and drags his high office into the mire, I cannot remain silent...
...Byron's soul was mire...
...accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire of 200,000 committees, which in varying degrees were ostensibly protecting an investors' stake of $36,000,000,000, he will soon report his findings to Congress, probably with recommendations for toothy legislation...