Word: mires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best is afforded by a study of the floating gardens at Xochimilco, a suburb of Mexico City. Concerning this work, the following information is given out in a special circular for the exhibit: "The gardens, dating from at least 1270, halted Cortes, who was rescued from the mire of its sluice ways by Tlaxcalan allies...
Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history...
Next morning their platoon is sent over the top. Advancing through murk and mire, suffering heavy losses, they valiantly capture an Allied machine-gun nest only to be halted by news of the Armistice. Mutters one: "After four years-and it just fizzled...
...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...