Word: morass
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...roles with blossoming starlets clinging to his manly arms, George Sanders finally gets top billing in something better than a grade C picture. But even the sophisticated sneer and the amorous leer that made "The Saint" famous, working overtime, can't haul "The Moon and Sixpence" out of the morass of mediocrity...
...only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that morass than it is for the people who were born for a life in that mire...
...tired. Chiang Kai-shek does not want to give up to the Japanese, but high in the councils of Chungking there are those who might make peace and set up with Japan an Asiatic imperialism, with the white man evicted finally and forever. If China sinks farther into the morass of defeat, the Chungking appeasers may summon strength enough to overcome Chiang and have their...
...there is no room for false complacency among Republicans, who don't want to see their Party fall back into the morass of isolationism. Many of their most prominent and respected colleagues still cling to that ideal as a panacca that once given a chance will right all America's wrongs...
Adolf Hitler's eastern drive has left behind it a vast morass of filth and malnutrition. Figures published in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin show that in Poland in 1940 typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing...