Word: morass
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...between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged public from the malodorous morass of L'Affaire Stavisky...
...other his eyes can feast upon the expanse of grass. From Holworthy to Wigglesworth, from Thayer unto Strauss he can take pride in both those plots of grass that still survive. He can erect a bronze tablet in honor of those brave young blades that pushed through the morass in front of Sever. He can rejoice, too, in the saving that the Maintenance Department effected for the Budget when it failed to order grass seed...
...would like to know what on earth persuaded you to give up your six-page paper. You appeared to me to have found for the first time in your history a constructive way out of the morass of bulletin-board take journalism which had characterized your columns in the so-called "golden-days" before the six came in. I am told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories...
...Should the United States, Great Britain and France fail to point a way out of the economic morass at this Conference," snapped Copper King Francqui, "the small nations of Europe will cluster about the one sole statesman capable of leadership- MUSSOLINI. // Duce is fostering sensible ideas for united action while the Great Powers are doing nothing. The small nations, crying for leadership, will follow Mussolini...
...dark morass that is dubbed...