Word: morass
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...news conference, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker John McCormack and House Majority Leader Carl Albert signaled the Democratic assault on the G.O.P. with a coordinated blast at Nixon's economic policies. Nixon, they said, should call a national conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing to the voters' bankbook is never dangerous...
While most of the company's plays offer criticism of the contemporary morass they see about them in America today, the Pagcant Players seek also, in their mode of theatrical presentation and the public affirmation of their collective lifestyle, an alternative system of joyous human inter-relationships-a "pageantry" of life. Says Nadine Hack, a new member of the group, "We will dance and make music and fight and make love and make the revolution...
...into an all-out war between Cambodia's 37,000-man army and the better-armed, better-organized Communist troops, a slaughter would probably ensue. Cambodia could call on the Americans and South Vietnamese, but that would almost certainly plunge the country-like Laos-inextricably into the agonizing morass of the Viet Nam War. "In no case would I envisage asking any of our neighbors-Thailand, Laos, South Viet Nam-for assistance," Sirik Matak told Pines. "To ask others to help us militarily would destroy the independence and neutrality that are the preconditions of our small nation...
...earthquake-prone floor of the Santa Barbara Channel is such a geologically unstable morass of cracks and fissures that it may be difficult to prevent future oil-well blowouts. Moreover, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel recently approved a resumption of drilling in the channel. Reason: a special presidential panel recommended further drilling to relieve the pressure that pushed the oil to the surface. While some critics dispute this approach, a consortium of four oil companies (Union, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco), soon to be joined by Sun Oil, continues to pump 30,000 barrels of oil a day from the waters...
...powerful if oversimplified introduction to the political and moral morass of Vietnam, In the Year of the Pig is ultimately confounded by its own sense of outrage. Such a partisan representation of history is better known by the much-abused term propaganda, and its message gets across to those who come into the theater already in sympathy with what...