Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the matter when he noted that the very suggestion of an alien idea had been enough to terrify far too many Brown students. "Football," said Critic Thompson, "has been removed from sane, sensible dialogue. It has been checkered with clichés, mired in sentimental mush, drowned in tears and flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including...
Wade C. Thompson, instructor in English, stood before movie cameramen, national pressmen, and a crowd of 700 rambunctious students to support his thesis that "the anti-intellectual game is choked with cliches, sentimental mush, and too much sanctity...
...This Critical Hour." "But the purpose for which I speak principally today is to point out that a lot of mumbo-jumbo and mental mush about rigidity and inflexibility and misunderstanding will never help us as we face this.critical hour...
Sharing the lot of her snow-plagued subjects. Queen Elizabeth II plowed her station wagon into a drift near the royal homestead at Sandringham. had to mush 200 yds. down the road with Prince Charles to find a phone, call for help...
...Anglican Church's position in the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend brouhaha: "The inevitable mush-headed vicar has put in his appearance . . . There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...