Word: mucked
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...fault!'' It isn't, though. Hovelist Erskine Caldwell's breast-selling book, on which the film is based, negotiates such a ruttish stretch of his notorious Tobacco Road that anybody who tries to follow him is sure to get stuck in the muck...
...than its more demanding green and brown brothers. In Douglas Lake, Frey's crew also brought up a few "phantom" midges, near-transparent larvae that can reach adult stage without any oxygen at all for long periods at a time. As the air supply decreases, the rate of muck deposited increases, eventually suffocating the lake in a tangle of vegetation...
...over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
Before closing the site in early September, the researchers had extracted the near-perfect skeleton of the mammoth, and bones of an elk, a deer, a wolf, and a huge pre-historic bison from the muck. Of even more significance than the spectacular mammoth bones, parts of stone knives were found which give indications that the mammoth was killed by manlike beings more than 12,000 years ago. The artifacts are among the earliest remains of man found in the Rocky Mountain region...
This summer an effort will be made to recover the scattered bones of the bison, which was apparently butchered at the site. The muck of the springs is such a splendid preservative that even traces of pollen and animal hair as well as the fine bone specimens have been recovered, according to Miss Irwin. Work at the site is dangerous, as the muck tends to trap students in the same way it sucked in animals...