Word: mucking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...multifaceted and ambiguous, as are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that makes them mean more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love...
...Your Katrina photo-essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
...think what’s going to happen here, too, is that the field conditions will play a big part,” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy. “The field was relatively speaking destroyed last week...It’s going to be a muck-fest...
...said ‘Hey, here’s the deal, the field’s been destroyed, it’s been raining for 10 days, so we’re going to go out in the mud and we’re going to muck...
...resigned themselves to the fact that their homes, as they are now, are lost to them, most, like Hagan, dug in their heels on the controversial subject of whether the vulnerable, low-lying Ninth-surrounded by canals and the Mississippi River-should be allowed to rise from Katrina's muck. "How many times have they rebuilt Florida after something like this?" asked Hagan, a housekeeper for the nearby Jefferson Barracks that house the National Guard. "They're just gonna have to improve those levees, because we're stayin...