I saw Bernie Quinlan and Micky Conlan tearing along the quagmire back-line, magnificent together as the dwindling dark took over, as darkness always does in time of epiphany.
For Yale officials, the strike has been a public relations quagmire and has set back the university's efforts to repair its history of lamentable town-gown relations.
Some advocates of organized labor, among other voices in the contentious debate about baseball's steroid quagmire, will get their backs up, as usual, when a finger is pointed at Fehr.
When critics in Washington and elsewhere declared Libya a quagmire, these leaders refused to back away.
He acknowledged the political fragility of the moment when he was asked by a reporter whether he was "in something of a second term slump," and he shot back with "a quagmire, perhaps".
It was about stemming a growing financial panic that could have plunged the world economy back into the quagmire from which it has spent the past two years struggling to escape.So European leaders were right to act boldly as well as quickly.
Will the big pivot happen or will we be dragged back to our quagmire in the Middle East and Central Asia?
Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, says "I'll be damned" if more Americans are sent back to counterinsurgency quagmires in the Middle East, and calls for Saudi Arabia and others in the region to lead the fight against ISIS.
"Microsoft is now back in the legal quagmire, and nothing good is going to happen to the company anytime soon".
As Barack Obama is dragged back towards the Iraqi quagmire from which he thought he had escaped, Iran spots a chance to strengthen its influence there all the more.
But while economists remain pessimistic about the global outlook for 2009, there's a growing consensus that the US – which arguably led the world into recession – will be the first to drag itself back out of the quagmire.
