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• n  necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
• n  a hollow filled with mud
• n  a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
• n  any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
• v  cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

• Recall, please, the national mood in the 1970s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despond, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, declining productivity .
• In Eddie Murphy's brilliant vocal characterization, he's just the guy to lift Mike Myers' eponymous ogre out of his slough of despondency and serve as long-eared Cupid in his .
• He needs Ihe love of his good woman Lisa (Lea Thompson) lo keep him from falling into the slough of his family's steelworker tradition.

• gangrene
• sphacelus
• shed
• molt
• exuviate
• moult

News & Articles

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• State budget deal includes $60 million restoration to courts
  A state budget deal reached Tuesday between Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers is expected to add $60 million to trial courts, according to San Bernardino County Presiding Judge Marsha G. Slough. The budget is pending approval by the full legislature and then would need to be signed into law by...
  June 12, 2013 - Victorville Daily Press
• Police identify fisherman pulled from Bluff Slough in La Crosse
  La Crosse police released the name of the 61-year-old man whose body was pulled from the Bluff Slough on Saturday.
  June 9, 2013 - WKBT La Crosse
• Ebey Slough Bridge closed this weekend for paving
  The new Ebey Slough Bridge over Highway 529 in Marysville is scheduled to be closed this weekend so crews can apply the final layer of pavement to the bridge deck.
  June 8, 2013 - Everett Herald

Quotes

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• Sarah Greene in BBC News
  Greene, best known for co-presenting the children's BBC show Going Live, said: "It's been such a fantastic experience and a fantastic sport. I just can't wait to get back to all my friends at Slough ice rink. Everyone should take it up."
• Terry Eagleton in Independent
  That baffling and much quoted line - "Craig Raine's Heartbreak is a novel in the sense in which Eton is a school near Slough" - is followed by a qualification in the London Review of Books: "The description is true but misleading,"...
• Rob Niedermayer in International News Service
  When you have this much time (off), you have to stay sharp,right wing Rob Niedermayer said. "In practice, you have to battle. You can't slough off at all. The practices got more and more intense before the Vancouver series. I think that's...