Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gnarled little 72-year-old Mohandas Gandhi has recently lost seven pounds. Last week he was down to around 90. Doctors who visited his whitewashed hut in the mud village of Sevagram said that his blood pressure was rising, that hard work and the blazing Indian heat were exhausting him. They advised a fortnight's rest...
...their last night as a group, the pilots and their honorary commander, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, played musical chairs at the home of China's aged President Lin San. Then they tramped through rain and mud to motorcars, returned to their barracks and slept through the midnight hour when the A.V.G. passed into the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said rangy, blond Major Tex Hill: "People don't seem to understand you got feelings. When you work and fight together for a long time you hate to split up. It's like something going out of your life...
Bruce and the TDs. Man in charge of the U.S. rehearsal theater, which he chose for its limestone cliffs, mud and general orneriness, is quiet, resourceful, 47-year-old Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce, chief of the Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked...
Where the huge shipyard stands today there was only a swamp when smart Stephen D. Bechtel and natty John A. McCone took it over in the fall of 1940. Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
...weather was typical Army-Navy football game weather, without snow - it was the filthiest day with the coldest and slickest mud Americans had ever seen on July 4th. But the Australians stuck it out despite the fact that many of the 6,000, who paid a total of ?500, had to stand in an icy wind. At the game's end, the Australians applauded politely...