Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venturing slowly out across the lip of the gulch, we plunged downward. Dimly I saw troops hurling great bundles of fagots on to the muck and mud in the bottom of the track, trying to build a bridge for our tanks to cross. Tracers were spitting down toward them...
...four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
...France and Russia he successively commanded the SS Death's Head Panzer Division, and an Elite Guard armored-infantry Division. Last week a Russian bullet returned Obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke to the muck...
...South and East Africa, Egypt and Palestine when the long-winged, omnivorous grasshoppers regularly descend on the lands. One locust invasion of Kenya did ?300,000 worth of crop damage. They know that the creeping locust hordes have actually slushed trucks and even trains to a stop with the muck of their billion-bodied mass. One mass of locusts crossing the Red Sea covered an area of 2,000 sq. mi. Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign: "The world suffers 15,000,000 Ib. worth...
...rain-splashed Maryland hilltop last week stood a shivering band of Army generals, colonels, majors and news correspondents. Below them, spread over a sea of yellow muck, was an amazing spectacle. An M-4 (General Sherman) tank lumbered noisily through the mud, nosed down into a shell hole, up the other side, paused before the generals' hill, then roared away. At its heels came a lighter tank, a General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation...