Word: turbidity
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...headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood the water is turbid...
Turbulent and clear in its headwaters, the Missouri changes its character after its junction with the turbid waters of the Yellowstone, changes again as it meanders through the prairies to earn its nickname of "Big Muddy" and empty at last into the Mississippi ten miles above St. Louis. The longest U.S. river (2,470 miles), it is also one of the most dangerous in flood. Forever seeking its lost channel (it once flowed north to Hudson Bay), the Missouri is also the hungriest of U.S. rivers, with a yearly menu of "ten thousand acres of good rich farming land, several...
Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith. Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell. What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said...
...have recently had occasion to advise you to check your turbid sources and I do so again in your interest because your readers are bound to discover sooner or later that your so-called war reports are mostly the product of complete ignorance or unhealthy imagination...
...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...