Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the 79th Congress waded neck deep in the muck of problems deposited by war & peace. As a Congress it was no better or worse than most U.S. Congresses. The people might have hoped that its representatives would rise to a unique and critical occasion. That they did no better than they did-or no worse -should have surprised no one. They were, after all, representative of the people, and the people themselves were not yet steadied to the onslaught of peace...
Soft Life. In West Brighton, N.Y., Rita Clay became Mrs. Donald Muck...
Captain Julius D. Dusenberry's company left all armor and supply vehicles behind, shed most of its personal equipment and set out through the muck. Ascending a narrow ravine they labored 2,000 yards to the shattered walls of the castle, sliding and cursing. Only a few snipers were left to oppose them, and the marines drove into the vital heart of the Japanese Shuri line. Said Major General Pedro A. del Valle, 1st Marine Division commander: "The most astonishing thing is how the hell they got there...
...there was hard coral rock only six inches under the surface and the bulldozer driver finally gave it up. Then the TNT arrived. The sergeant was pretty mad by this time. He snatched it up savagely and said to the spectators: "A lot of muck is going to fly, so all of you people stand back. There's no telling how many bastards may pour...
This was the Ukraine in spring: sparkling puddles, shell craters, blistered, blackened tanks, the sullen stench of battle and unburied soldiers. Along the muddy roads, Red Army tractors tugged at stalled trucks and mired cannon. Red artillerymen whipped their foamy horses. Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle...