Word: slushing
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Slowly the mercury climbed as the men worked forward through a rough country of dank forests, steep hills, sharp little valleys and winding streams. The snow that had blinded them during the German breakthrough, the ice that had immobilized their trucks turned into deep slush and mud through which they slid and slithered...
Said one Tommy: "In snow and slush we marched 17 miles, then they quartered us in one room 14 by 20 feet -50 of us. . . . We asked for food and water, but were given nothing. . . . After a night of misery we marched on next morning, some of us singing hymns...
...crowd began to gather. Diplomats had been told to leave their frock coats at home, and did. Only two top hats were visible: on Charles M. Dale, a Governor (New Hampshire), and on George Jessel, a comedian. The crowd came in overcoats and galoshes, sloshed about in mud and slush...
Europe's mud and slush of October and November caught the U.S. Army with its feet unprepared. Result: up to Dec. 12, 17,500 G.I.s had developed trench foot, something no one expected in World War II (partly because no one expected the war to settle down into mud and trenches...
...once by a Senate campaign expenditures committee). He deeply resented the Communist label: "You're trying to prejudice the public against us. You're hitting below the belt!" But he welcomed this opportunity to help scotch the "fantastic stories" about P.A.C.'s huge slush funds and lavish spending on behalf of the New Deal. In a five-page financial report and a twelve-page statement, Mr. Hillman told the Congressmen that P.A.C. had spent, thus far, a mere...