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Word: morasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volcanic mud onto the out skirts of Cartago, killing 13 people and wrecking hundreds of homes. Now the danger is worse. A thick layer of unstable ash has accumulated in the area between Cartago and the smoking mountain. With the rainy season approaching, it may turn into a slithery morass and, faster than a man can run, slide down the valleys, picking up rocks and trees. The first heavy rain to soak Irazú, Tazieff fears, may well start a giant mudslide capable of destroying Cartago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: The Volcano Doctor | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...39th since the days when Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson personally handled the 200 applications made by Americans each year. He is Edward J. Brenner, 40, a reserved, rugged patent attorney and engineer for Esso, who will need all his own inventiveness to keep from foundering in a morass of words, charts and pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patents: Reform Pending | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...Hindu majority and its 1,000,000 Moslems to the boiling point. Tens of thousands sleep on the streets or in abandoned sewer pipes and gutters are clogged with garbage, cow dung and human excrement; the water is polluted, epidemics frequent, poverty rampant, and unemployment endemic. In this morass of 6,500,000 people, the Hindu refugees' Moslem-atrocity stories spread like an infection. Inevitably, Calcutta's Hindus retaliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Blood in the Streets | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...York City Superintendent Calvin Gross [Nov. 15] appears to be a laser beam cutting into the Stygian morass called American education. If this is really true, I may be coaxed into returning to the classroom firing line as a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 1963 | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...into an extravaganza, which is what would have resulted if all of Shaw's directions had been followed exactly. Even if these excessive directions were an intentional part of his parody, it is wise to modify them; otherwise no Caesar--not even the real one--could survive amid the morass of spectacle...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Caesar & Cleopatra' at Stratford | 8/6/1963 | See Source »

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