Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, a combination sleet, snow, rain and windstorm began driving across 16 states of the Midwest and Northeast. It was a sneaky, sloppy storm, full of windy obscenities. Its rain turned snowy roads to frigid mush, it iced everything it touched and hexed everything it missed...
Sproul predicted Saturday that successful agitation in a state such as New York would lead "without question to the mush-rooming of more institutions everywhere; and, I might add, all of them...
Marchand eloquently explains the change in his color and composition: "I used to paint mostly on the Mediterranean," he says,"which is a world of fire. But now I have discovered the complexity of the sun seen through the trees, the feel of moss, ferns and mush rooms, the moist wonder of a grey wood in the early morning when the cobwebs are cradling the dew, whereas at the sea you can't get away from the horizontal line. And another thing: where there are lakes and streams in the forest the skies are down in the water...
...years since the Communist Manifesto, had Marx's mush-mouthed dialectics, distilled from northern academic mists, come so far in a land where struggle had always been so real and urgent that it needed no theoretical encouragement? How did Communist influence manage to reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part...
...office, its makers threw in some boring heavenly discourses on Anglo-American relations (with Canadian-born Raymond Massey as the U.S. spokesman) and some trite philosophizing on everything from the hereafter to the British Empire. These "intellectual" flourishes finally grind even the inoffensive little love story to movie mush...