Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriages, Muck. One of White's helpers lugged along a pot of honey, wherewith to soothe the voluble candidate's rasped throat. White reminded the voters that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley is vaguely related to His Lordship. Lord Hartington countered with the statement that White had himself actually been a follower of Mosley (when Sir Oswald was a Socialist...
...farmer, Robert Goodall, also ran. He wanted to know if Lord Hartington could milk a cow. The Marquess replied: "Yes, and I can spread muck [manure]." He thereupon ignored Goodall, challenged White to a muck-spreading contest for a ?5 bet, winnings to the Red Cross. White was too busy making speeches...
Where the corn grows tall in Iowa, almost everybody knows hearty, conscientiously corny Ray Anderson. In blizzards and blistering heat, through muck and manure, he has been rambling its countryside for 17 years, helping build for the Cedar Rapids Gazette a circulation of 45,000, for himself a 242-lb. girth and a reputation as a top U.S. newspaper farm page editor. This week 55-year-old Anderson moved to broader pastures. His new beat: the rural Midwest, as a roving editor of Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (TIME...
...Tent. The correspondents and Kathy saw thousands of corpses; the authorities said that Katyn Forest contained some 12,000. Then the party went into one of four large grey-green army tents, clumping the snow and muck off their boots as they entered. It was warmer inside and the stench was overpowering. Dr. Prozorovsky ripped open a corpse numbered 808, sliced chunks off the brain like cold meat, knifed through the chest and pulled out an atrophied organ. "Heart," he said, holding it out to Kathy. Then he slit a leg muscle. "Look how well preserved the meat...
After they have fought enough laughs to a draw, it turns out that Cinemactor MacMurray is really no sans-culotte but a brilliantly eligible engineer, complete with a degree and an invention that is tried out in a sensational, muck-drenched cave-in scene, in which the sandhog saves the lady photographer...