Word: bog
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...such points, the interrelations of army administration, civil administration and private administration are of the highest consequence to the welfare of our citizens. Without sound management, the structure of society will bog down and flounder, but skilled personnel and practices will aid immeasurably in reconstruction and readjustment. Otherwise, peace may bring calamities as hard to bear as those of a war, or a war-tension period...
Several times the Crimson team fought its way down the field only to be repulsed before pay-dirt, and did not bog down until the third quarter, when they lost the ball on downs near the Yale 15 yard line. Phil Neagle and Sam May, Crimson linemen, sparked a defensive which stopped the winners running plays cold...
Harold Kaese of the Transcript: "With a wet field another team will score. Too wet for passing and heavy field will bog down running game...
...Britons have learned to watch the flight of sea birds. Gulls flying inland means that raiders are coming. But the war has been hard on sea gulls. Diving for fish killed by exploding mines, depth charges and torpedoes, they land on a surface of oil spread by sunken ships, bog down, can fly no more. Last week a Mrs. Yglesias on the Cornish coast went into the business of cleaning gulls. With the assistance of her two daughters she was able...
...trench-furrowed valley, Belgium's defense line now was the 250-foot-wide Albert Canal running from Liege northwest to Antwerp, with reinforced concrete blockhouses and pillboxes along its inner bank; with open fields on the far bank to expose an invader; with a flooding system to bog down those fields; with tank traps and barriers, mined highways and bridges...