Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat...
...smooth and magnificent. It was in a meadow. The first thing I did was deflate the bag, wrap it up and go for help. Then I discovered that my landing place [Orfordness, near Ipswich] was a desert. I stumbled into bogs, fell into brambles, sprained my ankle in a slough. 'Mon Dieu' I said to myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls...
While Peiping rode the crest of victory, Nanking languished in the slough of defeat. From the Nationalist capital TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin cabled...
...soothsayers and the high priests of their own outworn political philosophy rather than to the people. Apparently they never learn anything, for just a few weeks ago they turned thumbs down on Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a man who could help lead the Republican Party out of its slough of despond, and a Harvard graduate who would probably disagree with your statement "that undergraduates are exposed to too much liberal thinking within the College...
...Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout paper pumpkins. RICHARD P. BISSELL Dubuque, Iowa