Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page report made no qualitative judgments from its morass of statistics, but Harvard did emerge as the leader in more fields than any other college or university...
...Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...
...authorities have made a further contribution to this morass of homogeniety by establishing an arbitrary class system. As determined by their recods, the hounds are divided into classes graded from 1 up to A and pitted only against their peers. Spotting dogs who have just moved up or down on the scale is, however, one way of judging their chances. These estimates and comparisons of overall records allow handicapers to function above the humiliation level, and a "consensus" estimate is made on each of the races in the handy 35-cent program sold at the track...
...tragedy of Commander Rockwell's demise is that such quality and potential leadership were befouled by a twisted alignment with a vociferous band of homicidal psychopaths and miscellaneous social rejects. It is my sincere conviction that if this man had not permitted himself to become encased in the morass that is the Nazi ideology, he would have served his nation with excellence as a U.S. Senator or perhaps a Cabinet officer. His combat record attests to this postulation...
...played the trumpet. Then came the post-World War II Army, in which he served as an enlisted infantryman in Japan, Korea (where he won a combat infantryman's badge) and the Philippines. But this was still the segregated Army and, for the Negro G.I., a discouraging morass of minor humiliations and kitchen routine...