Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council responded by unanimously reelecting Lee and the rest of its leadership to a second term. But Lee's team would find that somehow, without their knowledge, the terrain of campus politics had altered. Gone was the pool of quick liberal causes, in its place was a morass of longer-term projects and underlying institutional questions...
ROTC is a philosophical and moral morass that we need not mire ourselves in. Let those who benefit from its discrimination take the bus. Wade Lagrone UC Representative Dunster House
...less scarce next week, when NBC launches its new half-hour daytime serial, Generations. Viewers will discover that the Marshalls are not equal-opportunity walk-ons but as much a "real" family as their friends the Whitmores and as capable as any white family of bumbling into a melodramatic morass...
...withdraw 50,000 troops from Eastern Europe and reduce by half the number of Soviet tanks in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. If George Bush can build on it, this surprise announcement could reinvigorate conventional arms-control talks, which in turn could help the U.S. out of its budget morass and alleviate strains within NATO over how to share the burden of maintaining a sturdy conventional and nuclear defense...
...city of Cleveland, a lunch-pail town with a drab reputation, than a Browns championship. But the Browns' work-a-day efforts have been thwarted the last two years. And now, after Sunday's loss, they seem destined to fall from the heights of disappointment into the morass of mediocrity...