Word: morass
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...encyclical," he says, "what could be clearer than that the path from the Thomistic theory of a just price based upon labor value, to the theory of Adam Smith, guaranteeing social justice by the automatic balances of a free market, descends steeply from the heights of justice to the morass of private greed...
India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru is not the first man to get bogged down in the morass of pacts, protocols, aides-memoire, memorandums and verbal understandings that spell out Western rights in Berlin. Nehru is merely the latest prominent person to take a reading-and to add confusion to the crisis. Rising in New Delhi's Parliament during a foreign policy debate last week, Nehru gratuitously declared that as far as he and his experts could make it out, the East Germans were legally justified in closing their sector frontier. Raising the question of Western access rights...
...book. The fact is that a lot of the criticism was justified. It was also fact that with all of its errors of detail, the History was the boldest and most exciting effort yet made by a modern historian to chart man's troubled, inspired climb from primitive morass to a fellowship...
...them. The parallel to the householder's mindless slaughter of the murderers and blind dragging of his followers back to the scene of his daughter's death, is surely intentional. Obsession and tension make compelling viewing; they do not make persuasive or perceptive art. Bergman wanders instead into a morass of behavioristic description which robs his stories of meaning and depth...
...military men would as soon use the bow and arrow as fight a war in landlocked Laos. The crooked fingerlike country boasts two roads on dry days, which become a morass of mud during the rainy season, beginning in May. Communications facilities are virtually nonexistent, and jungle trails suffice for railroads. The patchwork of mountains and jungles makes tanks about as useful there as they would be atop Mount Everest; it is guerrilla country, and the shrewd Communist Pathet Lao fighters play it that...