Word: mires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Lady was back at the White House, five minutes ahead of schedule. It had been an incredible performance, out-Eleanoring Eleanor. In 85 minutes she had covered six miles (through Washington's worst mire), visited seven hotels, made seven speeches...
...Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that morass than it is for the people who were born for a life in that mire...
...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...