Word: mires
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Through and around the enemy whites' artillery, anti-tank defenses, infantry positions and supply lines the black Panzers darted. Only comfort for the surprised, outflanked troops of the Ninth was the providential presence of a protecting swamp in the engineers' path. The black s- would certainly mire in the muck...
...last and most notable of her countless poems was Soldiers, Come Back Clean, published by Hearst's New York Journal in the year of the battle of Cambrai. It ran: I may lie in the mud of the trenches, I may reek with blood and mire, But I will control, by the God in my soul, The might of my man's desire...