Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...