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  • r  up to the waist

  • The inside story of how Bush decided to wade waist-deep into the Middle East quicksand is the story of a President who is learning that there are few simple choices in foreign .
  • Television footage from the North showed citizens in Pyongyang wadding in knee- and waist-deep waters along the capital's grand boulevards an extraordinary concession of .
  • He scuttled the boat, stashing aboard it a waterproof bag with $480,000, then took off through the waist-deep swamp toward the lights of El Jobean, a tiny fishing village.
News & Articles

  • News flash: Post-steroid sports world never really existed - Sun, 09 Jun 2013 PST
    The second-biggest sports league in North America is waist-deep in what could be the biggest performance-enhancing drug bust in history, and thank goodness for it. Thank goodness that Major League Baseball is putting itself in the litigiously tenuous position of basing what could be 1,000 games’ worth of suspensions to some of its biggest stars on the testimony of a drug dealer it previously ...
    June 9, 2013 - The Spokesman-Review
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    Under a brilliant blue sky, a wet-suit-clad Clay Lovel drops down into waist-deep water, groping in... - 12:20 am
    June 9, 2013 - FSView
  • 3 men trapped in waist-deep water at Nices Mill
    Three young men became trapped in waist-deep water in Murfreesboro on Wednesday night.
    June 6, 2013 - WKRN Nashville
Quotes

  • Mitch Daniels in NewsOK.com (registration)
    This thing came on fast with such a radical deluge of water that people were describing going from a feeling of security to waist-deep water in a matter or 15 or 20 minutes,said Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who canceled a trade mission to Japan.
  • Gary Hart in New York Times
    Gary Hart began his Washington Post op-ed piece this week by quoting from an anti-Vietnam War song, "Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on."
  • Brian Bannister in TSN
    Whether the job is dragging mortar tubes through waist-deep snow at 9,000 feet in the foothills of the Himalayas in Afghanistan, or conducting raids up staircases in urban Iraq, you know how to take the fight to the enemy and get the job done... Vice President Dick Cheney http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHymxtqqubcIN48tX54GpOGavPMUg Army Public Affairs http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php%3Fstory_id_key%3D8317&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE2lF1bqMT4rHuBSSYI3BN_fAoyTA Dec 9, 2005 108662 142524 waist-high I had no feel for the ball," Bannister said. "Everything was waist-high or higher......There's no excuse for it."

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