Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Supply Priorities & Allocations Board-set up last August as a cure-all for the bickering and delay in the U.S. defense effort-has itself bogged down in a morass of divided authority and red tape...
...beginning (the Lend-Lease Act) and the hoped-for end (a just peace everywhere) are easy to see. The path between lies across a morass. But last week such progress had been made that the State Department allowed word to leak out that both Governments would be ready within 60 days to publish a "Declaration of Intentions...
Never did Navy come as close to payoff humus as did Harvard on these two thrusts. Every time the sailor backs got going, the holes in Harvard's line mysteriously closed and swallowed the ball carrier in a morass of Crimson jerseys. HARVARD-NAVY STATISTICS H N Points Scored 0 0 First Downs 5 12 Net Gain Rushing 71 164 Passes Attempted 11 9 Passes Completed 2 2 Gained by Passes 37 22 Passes Intercepted by 0 2 Gained by Interceptions 0 13 Number of Punts 13 12 Average Punts 37 38 Punt Runbacks 15 36 Number of Penalties...