Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shockproof automatic flight recorder carried by all jetliners to record moment-to-moment data on a plane's altitude, speed, gravity forces and direction. But after two days, the flight recorder of American One had not been found, and it may keep its secrets hidden forever in the muck of Jamaica...
...compulsive in their dedication to that American whatever-it-is that so boldly distinguishes us from the other side. Any other group, we mean to say, could quickly and competently--even if quite unconsciously--be drawn into the value system of those people, much as an unthinking speck of muck can be unwittingly scooped into the maw of a Hoover suction machine. But not the YAF: their duty is clear-cut. They must go, in our name, to Helsinki, to watch, observe, calculate, devise, scheme--and perhaps (who can say?) even learn something about the realities of international politics...
...arrives in Arizona, signs on as a ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine-but in style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls off the edge, lands sitting on a pig, rides wildly off into the sunset...
...fault!'' It isn't, though. Hovelist Erskine Caldwell's breast-selling book, on which the film is based, negotiates such a ruttish stretch of his notorious Tobacco Road that anybody who tries to follow him is sure to get stuck in the muck...
...than its more demanding green and brown brothers. In Douglas Lake, Frey's crew also brought up a few "phantom" midges, near-transparent larvae that can reach adult stage without any oxygen at all for long periods at a time. As the air supply decreases, the rate of muck deposited increases, eventually suffocating the lake in a tangle of vegetation...