Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poem or Muck? Swedish newspapers, in recent weeks, have printed more than 200 articles debating whether Bergman's film is art or pornography, whether it is "his strongest poem" or simply "muck." Letter-writing men are more shocked than women. Swedish teenagers, usually celebrated for their easygoing physical outlook, are offended. "Right now I don't want to see any more Bergman films," said one girl last week. "The sex scenes were almost animalistic, and I was shocked...
...company dredged the opening channel through the reefs of Pearl Harbor in 1902, eventually deepened it enough to change Pearl from a little coaling station to one of the world's great harbors. Walter Dillingham used the muck dragged up from the sea to fill in low, marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with...
...water and debris thundered past. Then they noticed that the lights of Longarone had gone out. In just seven minutes, virtually everything and everybody in the chalet-bedecked villaggio had been swept away by water or entombed in mud. With pickaxes and shovels, soldiers dug fearfully into the muck, by week's end had unearthed 1,500 bodies. Of Longarone's peaceful populace of 3,500, the carabinieri feared that only a handful survived...
...play a horrid role. And in the popular Gallic fairy tale that still passes for the history of France during World War II, he has always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years of national guilt and failure might be buried with...
More and more European settlers have decided to remain in Kenya, and I think their view is justified. Of course, tribalism could muck it all up. But with a little luck, I think Kenya can gradually crawl forward...