Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withers, it dies in the head. It suffocates in the dust and the pathless mud. It runs off in barbaric downpours of rain or becomes embarrassed in the face of blood or a comrade's grave. There are also moments and hours when the smile completely freezes, because this country, under a curse, suddenly leers at us with frosty demonism...
...Three dud shells lie in what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...
...Blue side, the red-necks became front-line troops-in a tradition that was old at Cerro Gordo. Sweating, plastered with swamp mud, drenched with rain, they built bridges alongside spans that umpires' flags had marked blown up. They picked up tank mines, destroyed barricades, bridged rivers and bayous with pontons or spanned them with felled trees. When they had finished, Louisiana had more usable bridges than it had ever had before. All along the Blue front, fighting troops advanced to the scream of the engineers' power saws and the grunt of their powerful bulldozers...
...they have in many a battle before, the soldiers with mud behind their ears got a wholehearted vote of thanks. Most impressed by their virtuosity were British observers, who knew what crack German Pionierkorps men can do. The British said they had never seen anything like it. Tearing down or building up-the engineers were cracker jacks at either...
This time it was Panzer trouble. Captain Hugh B. Ellis of the Red troops, a scholarly officer whose spectacles were now flaked with mud, was in his way with a small holding force. Tank guns barked. Soldiers shouted as they piled off truck and tank and into the fray. Colonel Morris laid down a smoke screen, called for help from his accompanying artillery...