Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of its predecessors from across the Atlantic. Its success in London may have been due in part to playright Terence Rattigan's gift for easy dialogue and his mastery of subtle character analysis, two qualities dear to the hearts of British theatre-goers. But deep down, beneath the morass of complex personal relationships, the play is without core. Rattigan guides his characters' development with delicate artistry, but when called upon, can never quite resolve the tangled ends of their psychoses into a unified, coherent theory...
Since then a government-appointed council has been plodding through a morass of title switches, and returning the securities to the original owners. The government ruled that if the stocks and bonds were bought in "good faith," i.e., without knowing that Lippmann, Rosenthal had put them on the market, the buyer could keep them. But it never faced up to the question whether stockbrokers, as they claimed, had little choice but to deal with Lippmann, Rosenthal in order to stay in business...
Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...
...morass of considerations raised during Faculty discussions of the Bender Report appeared three crucial problems: division of authority, money, and manpower. Each threatened either to subvert the program or to wreck it outright...
After the dismal morass of scandals into which college football sank this past summer, even the smallest act of sportsmanship in the gridiron game would be welcome. Thus the Holy Cross decision not to use freshmen when it plays against Harvard and Brown (who are following an Ivy League decision not to use them) seems encouraging out of all proportion to its importance...