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  • “Cougars and Quagmires” is the tagline for my new pinup/military analysis magazine.

    Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Re: Parched, Revisited 2007

  • I will be sleeping restless til this happens Although I hate to say that “Quagmires family hour” sounds good too!

    Look! It’s The Trailer For The Cleveland Show: You Know, Him Out Of Family Guy 2008

  • Count the Quagmires yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Count the Quagmires'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: To be constantly prepared for war -- to be a superpower -- means that no cost is too great for the latest weapons system, but almost any cost is too great for the care of the wounded.'

    Count the Quagmires 2007

  • By now, the horror and scandal have exceeded the expectations of even the harshest critics of the invasion — mine, for instance — and I numbly play Count the Quagmires along with the rest of the media and general public.

    Count the Quagmires 2007

  • Pabitra SenguptaKolkata, IndiaSetting Chomsky StraightIn his criticism of the Bush administration, Noam Chomsky fails to recognize the most critical concern of today's world: security against terrorism ( "A Tale of Two Quagmires," The Last Word, Jan. 9).

    Mail Call 2007

  • Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: - Bush\'s earworm, Kissinger, slithered out and effectively unraveled the presidential lame-duck loser\'s plans for a military victory in Iraq by declaring that we\'ve lost.'

    Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires 2006

  • Quagmires surrounded them, covered by a thin crust of verdure, sometimes broken through by one man's weight, when the victim sank hopelessly into the black and bottomless depths below.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

  • Quagmires are bad ground for walking, and she was in a hurry to reach _terra firma_ again.

    The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

  • If I live, it is like to be completed; but whether I shall live, and not rather be buried alive, broken-hearted, in the Serbonian Quagmires of English Stupidity, and so sleep beside Cromwell, often seems uncertain.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • Quagmires surrounded them, covered by a thin crust of verdure, sometimes broken through by one man's weight, when the victim sank hopelessly into the black and bottomless depths below.

    Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

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