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Word: mires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: My Evening | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Great Commentator | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Government to the Rescue | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...marched his prisoners through the bloody mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin' Gatherin' | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Illiterates | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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