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His mother was cold and controlling; his father and sister both committed suicide (in 1907 and 1929, respectively); his beloved brother died of alcoholism in 1926, just as Hiss was beginning his superbly calculated rise out of the family muck to suave and well-tailored eminence in Roosevelt's State Department.
But they would prefer to be trekking across the wildflower-pocked tundra, wading through 35-degree glacial muck, spending hours -looking, or exploring tidal pools for sunflower stars and brittle stars, spiny sea urchins, mussel worms, anemones, and blennies, as curious and brightly colored as any on a tropical coral reef.
"There's this explosion of information, and much of it is crap," says Michael Riley, executive producer of AllPolitics, the site maintained by CNN and Time . This makes sites like Riley's especially valuable because they become, basically, reliable brand names in a sea of muck.
In The New Yorker , Gore Vidal defends Seymour Hersh's Kennedy-bashing book: "The fact that [Hersh has] found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge is hardly his fault."
There are terms from general English: make a balls of `muck up, bugger up,' bang `intercourse,' outsider `horse (dog) starting at long odds.