Word: mud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mud. At Shreveport, La., stunt-loving Radio Station KWKH, owned by Henderson Iron Works, rushed a plane into the air for an endurance flight to anticipate the time when endurance attempts would become too banal for public attention. The plane stayed up 128 hours. Averred E. B. Redline, flight director: malicious persons put mud in the gasoline supply...
...Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...
...thunderstorm, stampeded a bunch of horses on their way to the corral. There followed a thundering herd effect which would have gladdened any cinemactor's heart. The lightning flashed. The thunder banged. The cowboys whooped. The horses, led by a black mustang stallion, galloped. Gumbo mud spattered. Arrived at the camp the horses, thoroughly out of control, splashed through the shallow water-pool, soon left wet and weary horse catchers far behind. "It's a part of the game," said Catcher Skelton...
...soothingly on the grease-mud as there lurks the skid demon. Press the brake of the foot as you roll round the corners to save the collapse...