Word: morasses
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...lift our-Jesse Jackson selves out of this morass, we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial...
...find in a lobby?' as one staff member put it--lobbyists. More than 15 representatives from college and secondary school organizations greeted the Congressmen. They were all there--from the coalition of Independent College and University Students to the American Association of Universities. And somehow, in the morass of pledges and please and pushing, Harvard was making its point...
...headlines, anti-treaty Senators howled in outrage, and backers of the canal pacts groaned. Democratic Senator Frank Church warned that the apparent differences between the U.S. and Panamanian views of the pacts had to be resolved quickly. "Otherwise," he said, "this will be a tangle, then a morass and finally a legislative catastrophe...
...parable. The New York film critie cliques seem all too ready to applaud the arrival of a new "school" of film. And once the Sarrises and Gilliatts affix their all-important seal of approval, off go the chic-conscious lemmings ready and willing to plunge into a two-hour morass of clipped dialogue and plots that never really unfold but merely plod...
...moment when the problem can be solved with minor discomfort for the presidency and the people. But also at that critical juncture there is the danger that the President, by design or from carelessness, will transform the issue into a presidential test. That is a deep and dangerous morass. Carter put one foot in that morass on the afternoon of Aug. 18 when he choppered down from Camp David to give Lance his "Bert, I'm proud of you" vote of confidence. In those few seconds what Bert Lance had done or not done became of secondary importance. Jimmy...