Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the ravaged Mississippi Valley last week, at least 48,000 refugees straggled back from the hills to homes and farms reeking with flood muck. Truck gardens were gone. Livestock was drowned. In 40 days, at least 4,000,000 acres of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois had suffered an estimated $500 million damage-a cost only 25% below that of TVA, and slightly less than the money spent on Mississippi flood control in the last 16 years...
...light, and in the darkness that fell black as a pall when the fuel was consumed, Hostess Ferguson and the other survivors worked in the mud and the scattered wreckage for two hours before rescuers reached them. The injured and the dead had to be carried through knee-deep muck to flat-bottomed swamp boats, then ferried across the estuary to ambulances. It took all night and all the next day before the grim and bloody work was done...
...keep the Frozen North frozen. The reason: beneath much of Alaska, as in other Arctic lands, lies a thick layer of "permafrost," or permanently frozen ground. It is hard and firm, but, as Russians discovered in Siberia long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look like modernist paintings, their streets slanting...
Croteau is not the sort of man you'd expect in the wispy levels of morality. He stands with his feet firmly in the muck, in full knowledge of what goes on in Boston, and why, and whom to go to see to have it stopped. His great lament is the overplay given the Society's censorship activities, which take only ten percent of its efforts and even less of its $2,500,000 endowment. Outside the field of censorship, Watch and Ward is just another Legion of Decency, an unofficial vice squad that has the support of most communities...
...crops that Congress planted in the muck were both good & bad. The best crops were in the field of foreign affairs. The Congress supported Bretton Woods and the World Bank, U.N. and UNRRA, for whose charitable work it appropriated $2.7 billion. In a flurry of legislation last week before adjournment Congress accepted (with reservations) the jurisdiction of the World Court in international disputes. After seven months' wrangling, it also approved the British loan...