Word: mushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mush-to gain little or no altitude or to lose altitude when the angle of attack would normally indicate a gain...
Prior to the formal debates of the 1890s, a series of undergraduate discussion groups extended back into the 18th century, including the Hasty Pudding Club, organized to "argue and eat corn meal mush." Meeting secretly in a student's room, one group, the "Society of Resident Graduates," in 1792 argued "Freedom for the West Indian Negros," "The Principal Design of Conversation," and "Does a Theatre Corrupt the Morals of the People" The Harvard Union (of 1831) stands out briefly among a number of similar ephemeral groups...
...chilly water of St. Louis Creek, dabbling at his painting, and demonstrating his prowess as a mess sergeant by preparing all the meals for the stag party. He put the camp on a two-big-meals-and-no-lunch regimen. His menus were hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold at night (12° above zero one night). More than a trace of autumn tanged the air: the Rocky massif...
Bogart reveals that he is not a priest at all: he is an American airman, shot down over China, who took service with a Chinese robber baron, and now all he wants is to get back to some of mom's pan-fried mush. And so the way is dynamited to a happy ending...
Quite a maudlin piece on Sinatra-written as though a teenager, about to swoon, were writing her thesis on mush...