Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Lodge speaks a clear and muscular language that warms my heart every time he addresses the Russians. As one who has viewed all things Republican with a jaundiced eye, I think it is a great relief to hear him after listening to the usual toplofty, mush-mouthed types who use elliptical sentences that seem, lately, to be the voice of America...
...came across a strongbox full of letters in the trunk of our car. The letters were from a married woman who is in love with my husband. They are so full of mush and love talk it would nauseate you. Should I send the letters to HER husband and let him handle...
...deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...
...calling for the U.S. to take an active stand for Algerian freedom from France, and he got an editorial roasting (TIME, July 15) for his pains. Deeply concerned. Kennedy called his father, then in France, and wondered aloud if he had not been mistaken. Replied Joe Kennedy: "You lucky mush. You don't know it and neither does anyone else, but within a few months everyone is going to know just how right you were on Algeria...
...habitués are finding just about everything they have the urge to wish for, i.e., a place to live in unpressured alcoholic freedom, a place eventually to die in peaceful alcoholic stupor. Food and board are cheap: 50? a night for a flop; two fried eggs, coffee, toast, mush and potatoes for a quarter. Money is adequate: handouts in these generous times are fat; pharmaceutical companies buy blood for $5 a pint if the donor appears sober; relief checks and unemployment compensation are punctual. If all else fails, a day's dishwashing will...