Word: mucking
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...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...
...flat, sometimes excessively precise. Yet the book develops a building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...
...surging Susquehanna-to no avail. When the river burst the sandbagged levee, an eight-foot wave surged through Wilkes-Barre's central business district. "My God," a volunteer wept, "we just couldn't do it." Finally, the water receded, leaving a three-inch layer of sour-smelling muck on everything it touched...
...high places regardless of party. We have the right to know what is going on between these high-salaried public servants and big businesses. Exposure is the only control these rats will respect-they like to operate in secret and behind closed doors. Remember, if there is no muck, there will be no muck to rake...