Word: mushing
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...Olive oil. 5. Corn meal mush...
Under a glass-hard exterior, he had a heart as soft as mush. He rooted fiercely for the underdog, perhaps because he was so much the underdog himself...
Professor Elliott's mouth is not mealy with the idealistic mush which can be refuted by a scornful guffaw and reference to the debacle that was the last U. S. attempt to reform European power politics. Because he wants to go to war with a hard-headed conviction that it is to our own materialistic interest to do so -- not starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe...
When Bishop Rowe went there in 1895, the Episcopal Church had three missions in its Alaska diocese (586,400 square miles). To reach them, he had to mush with a dog sled. From Indian and Eskimo companions, the Bishop learned to keep his socks dry at 78 below zero. He learned the knack of building a fire in a howling gale, learned to pick off wolves outside the camp circle with a rifle. Bishop Rowe mushed 2,000 miles each winter-in sum, he said, more than any other man in Alaska...
Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...