Word: morass
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Danger Ahead. Everywhere else democracy and U.S. policy were on the defensive or in a frustrated deadlock with their enemies. Eastern Europe was closed to U.S. influence. Occupied Germany was a deepening morass of four-power conflict. France, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium were allowed to drift through a year of chaotic "peace." Spain was an embarrassing problem. Even U.S.-British relations had soured over the bungled preparations for the British loan. In the Americas, Perón prospered on Washington's opposition. In southeast Asia and Indonesia, restless peoples, driving for freedom, were losing faith...
...Betio is changed greatly. The tangled morass of coconut logs and bomb-pitted sand has been leveled. Orderly rows of tents have risen to shelter the marines, the sailors, the airmen and the Seabees who man this outpost...
...pretty damn quick or we'll be catching people calling the Yard, "the campus." Publish pamphlets, pound it into their ears at compulsory meetings, take om out on Friday nights and got om drunk, do anything, only do it quick! If you don't, they'll sink into the morass of integrals and compulsory exercise, and will be a total loss to civilization, not to say a pack of terrific bores at class reunions...
Kootz, 44 and a Virginia-born lawyer, is a testy critic who knows what he does not like as well as what he does. Sometimes he slips into the morass of pompous nonsense that is a feature of the modern critical landscape (Picasso "frees us from materiality-our bondage to nature-and provides us with an ultimate reality"). But more often than many modern art critics Kootz writes clearly-and he has strong opinions to offer on the whole field of contemporary painting...
...other feature, "Truck Busters," is not without its moments, but succumbs in a morass of cliches. Most distinctive is a bosomy heroine, two brotliers who actually look like brothers, and an apparently asbestos-palmed villain who kept putting out cigarettes in his hand. Someone appropriately dropped a stink bomb...