Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...
...that we were going the wrong way. But you know what happens when you drop your oar? It may throw you out of the boat. Well, finally I did drop my oar, and I've been trying to swim to shore ever since-through a lot of muck...
...London sex scandal that has ousted two members of the Heath regime detoured into Fleet Street last week. It developed that two giant Sunday papers had been involved in questionable Peeping Tom activities while competing for salacious muck. The News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) revealed that one of its photographers had taken sneak pictures of Lord Lambton romping in bed with Prostitute Norma Levy and another doxy. NOW's rival, the Sunday People (circ. 4,600,000) admitted paying for film and tapes of Norma's upper-crust bedroom festivities...
...ahead of him. But few people who were familiar with the economic and administrative quagmire into which Harvard had allowed its Press to slide would have given even as sound an editor and businessman as Rosenthal much chance for pulling the operation out of its organizational muck by the time the next Commencement rolled around...
...project would be "inconsistent" with laws designed to preserve the U.S.'s cultural heritage. The state's reply: It would go ahead and build the facility without Washington's help. As for the Louisa County supervisors, they blamed "pseudo intellectuals" for miring the prison in "federal muck...