Word: quicksands
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...Economic Quicksand...
Tillich described post-war Western Germany as a country floating on "economic quicksand." Surprised by Germany's recovery after the second World War, he said that such a comeback could really only be caused by a miracle. He added, "The question is: Is this a divine or a demonic miracle...
Curtice is a true symbol of our debt-burdened generation. Could he be the paid piper of mammon, whose honking horn lures us into the quicksand of two-toned time payments...
...York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes. Next, Lettitia sent her husband crashing to his death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night...
...days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came home bearing old corsets, broken umbrellas...