Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving the capital in the midst of an unseasonal storm that sent snowflakes swirling through Washington and dumped up to two inches of mush and slush in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, Carter headed for the welcome 85° heat of Albuquerque for a closed meeting of Governors of nine Western states. Though the airport crowd of 1,000 was generally friendly, the placards were mixed: WASHINGTON, TIGHTEN YOUR BELT-I'M LOSING MY PANTS, WELCOME TO AMERICA'S ENERGY POLICY-JUST DON'T BREATHE (a reference to Albuquerque's air pollution problem), and TEDDY LOVES...
Past summits have taught the participants to be prudent about raising excessive expectations. One U.S. Sherpa last week was already lamenting that "right now it looks like it will be all mush and mirrors." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has conceded that "we should not expect massive breakthroughs at Tokyo" but rather should aim for "a set of priorities about what should and should not be done." As Schmidt said last week, even if their accomplishments have sometimes seemed meager, the economic summits have helped the world avoid a repetition of the great Depression of the 1930s "which would have...
...predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined, four-flushing Christians...
...crowded around a beat-up purple and white bus. Jeez, how will they all fit? Adam, a frizzy-haired, forlorn-looking grad student in an orange serape, says at least six passengers can bunk in the luggage racks. It begins to rain, and soon sleeping bags are turning to mush. There was no receipt for that $10 either. Will there be a seat? The woman was pretty evasive on the phone. All this secrecy, the whole scene, in fact, brings back college days in 1967 when you jammed a rug under the door and opened all the windows before...
...sights and terrors of a world that touches the sky. He observes that crampons (metal spikes attached to the soles of climbing boots) on frost make "the crunching sound of someone eating corn on the cob," then watches the benign sun become treacherous, turning glacier snow to sodden mush. His observations on climbing style might save a few bones: "Holding on to pitons is considered bad form but, as I see it, it beats falling." As a lagniappe, Bernstein answers the non-climber's classic question...