Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they usually bring home more than their share of trophies, the Marines are called "pot-hunters." Accustomed to Central American rain and slime, they did not seem to mind the early bad weather, won more cups than any other unit. Equally acclimatized to tropic sun glare, they won the team match for the second consecutive year, for the eleventh time. The only branch that consistently gives the Marines a run for their money is the Infantry, which still holds the match record of 2,838 out of a possible 3,000, established...
...raised the catcalls of those who hate "debunkers"* of U. S. heroes. Dr. Edward Everett Hicks, Brooklyn psychiatrist and Son of the Revolution, cried: "It is about time the American people awoke to the fact that we have an element in this country† who seem to thrive on slime and filth, even to attacking the memory of the greatest personalities. . . . Blaspheming the memory of the immortal dead should cease...
...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...Freshman football team and Worcester Academy fought to a score- less tie in a field of mud and slime on the Freshman gridiron of Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. The contest was fiercely fought and both elevens showed a stubborn defensive play...
...town square, which the Jew and the woman have long shared, and which the woman gradually pushes into the fuddled head of her lover, the big longshoreman. There are times in the earlier sequences, when rebellion can be seen working in these cells living in the exuberant slime of the marketplace, working changes in them like electro-magnetism altering the composition of molecules. Then the picture seems great, with the pressure and pulse of a tremendous story. But the promise of the early development is never realized. The fate of the characters is indecisive; the rebellion that has stirred them...