Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...
...swank, black Packard whispered over the mud-covered asphalt street, drew up at the new south wing of the District of Columbia's ancient red-brick jail. Out in the rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...
Awaiting Envoy Engert in the 6,000-foot high, mud-walled capital city of Kabul (pop. 150,000) were important talks with the young (28) king and his two trusted uncles-shrewd Prime Minister Mohammed Hashin Khan and dark-eyed War Minister Shah Mahmoud Khan. From these westernized leaders of 12,000,000 proud and primitive hillsmen, Engert could expect gracious hospitality. There would be tea and coffee, sweet cakes, pistachio ices and bowls of gigantic white mulberries. But whether there would be any cooperation in cleaning out Kabul's squirming nest of Axis intrigue was another question...
...MUD ON THE STARS-William Bradford Huie-L. B. Fischer...
...carried her up the hillside. I fell over a slope in the mud. She was making gurgling sounds, so I pulled her dress over her face and smothered...