He felt enough loyalty to his old school not to drag its name through the mud.

他对母校的忠诚足以使他不去损害她的名誉。

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"The consultants will drag you through the mud so Obama was brilliant in putting Valerie in that role, " Sanchez said.

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It seems that same union had secretly found a high-powered lawyer to drag Whitman through the mud and, of course, also backed her rival Jerry Brown.

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The area remained an unnavigable bog, forcing traders to drag their boats through the mud until 1848, when William Butler Ogden, the mightiest industrialist in the Midwest, backed the first canal that allowed boat traffic to sail straight through.

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