Word: morass
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...pictures of the Army-Notre Dame game. Keenan Wynn, one of the funniest and most amiable of Hollywood's products, manages to save some scenes. But the concerted opposition of Tito Guizar, Ann Miller, and Evelyn Keyes proves too much for him, and even he is overcome by the morass of bad songs, bad production numbers, and typical South American musical plot, complete with mismated couples and a fortunate marital reassortment...
Smuts's country had failed dismally to advance toward that brave ideal. Egged on by his opposition, the even more reactionary Nationalist Party, Smuts was going deeper & deeper into the racist morass of "white supremacy." Just before leaving for the current round of international conferences, he announced a great campaign to bring to South Africa "thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of immigrants." That they would be white went without saying...
...worth of food, machinery and various relief supplies, from fishing boats to water buffalo, into the country. But only a trickle had got where they were needed most. The bulk of the supplies piled up in warehouses, filtered down into the depths of the black market, enriched the morass of government corruption and "squeeze" (China's term for "honest graft...
Political Promise. President Morínigo's chances of leading his country out of this economic morass are slim. His chances of democratizing Paraguay are at least better...
...high court of commerce set up to which [all economic] disputes can be taken for adjudication in order that we may work out a program on the basis of the principles which made this country great. If this is not done, we shall soon find ourselves in the morass of confusion that will bring us either to Fascism or Communism...