Word: morasses
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...notoriously aggressive collector, and some in the art world believe that its hunger and spending habits encouraged looting and theft. Ironically, True was responsible in 1995 for the Getty's adopting a strict policy of buying only well-documented pieces. "She extricated the museum from an ethical morass," says University of Virginia professor of art history Malcolm Bell. "It's extremely sad that the one person who understood that the intellectual integrity of her institution depended on respecting knowledge is now going on trial...
...resigned. While we are glad that Harper found the courage to resign when his disagreements with the other members of the Corporation reached such a point that no common ground could be found, it is profoundly worrying that the Corporation may soon be swallowed up in a morass of groupthink...
...speech to his fellow Georgian journalists (later reprinted in Editor & Publisher), Perry advised them, "Forget fair." He thinks that accenting fairness is a sure way to make newspapers "a gray morass of innocuous inanity." Not long ago, his paper, which is home owned in a city of 30,000, reported a crime in a convenience store. Two men forced the night clerk to open the till and then raped her. The paper reported the store's name and its location but not the victim's name...
...locals. But through their omnipresent dark sunglasses, they often develop tunnel vision; in their focused quest for summer, they see sunshine, ice cream, maybe a daffodil or two––but not much else. Yet there is more to spring in Harvard Square for this morass of sun-seekers...
...aunt died, but kept her grip, even after rigor mortis had set in. Finally, after rescuers worked fruitlessly for 60 hours, Omaira died of a heart attack. In the days after the disaster, one doctor estimated that there were at least 1,000 living victims still trapped in the morass...