Word: wallowers
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...only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey air whale, changed to following winds that added speed and made life more endurable for the wakeful voyagers, forced to stand close-packed in their unheated gondola. Bear Island was raised and passed without the fog complications that had been feared. Then the southern...
...Britain is afraid that France would renew her original intention (TIME, Dec. 21) of trying to make the conference consider every possible form of "invisible armament" (peacetime industries capable of being turned to war purposes, etc.) and so make the scope of the conference so broad that it would wallow hopelessly amid a maze of insoluble questions...
...familiar barnyard animal is distinguished by its penchant for pushing about in the mud, but people do not gather by the fifty thousand to see contests among these animals, eleven on a side. The 69,000 rain-drenched individuals who saw Illinois wallow against Chicago might as well have been watching such a game of porcine poke-belly. Britton's toe and a brace of fumbles gave the mud-match to Illinois...
...precipitated, however, from that generality to the welter of the specific, to fundamentalism is one's own family, to mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts wallow in a slough of despond. The transcendentalist had the happy faculty, which we unfortunately have not, of soaring over this mire from the cradle to the clouds...
...that for four years he has forbidden us to share in the Peace of our Allies, with more than British hypocrisy withdrawing from them the hem of his Puritan garment; he now dares to rebuke us because we do not stand forward to defend from them our foes--a-wallow in the sly of their iniquities...