Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides mud and rain (there is room for all kinds of weather on a 2,000-mile battle front), the Nazis had other excuses for the prolongation of the struggle. Wrote a German reporter attached to the Nazi Army: "This war is the driest of all wars. . . . Down deep with the pail-up it came with mire and mud. On to the next well. It yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without...
...ungently plucks cactus spines from the seat of her pants after she makes an awkward leap from their stalled plane, deliberately smacks her skull with his to drive home a point, slingshots her from the rear while she signals for help with a mirror, roils her finery in the mud of an abandoned mine...
Their name is naught but mud...
Meantime if the scorched earth does not materially delay Adolf Hitler, soaked earth may bog him down. Last week, after early torrents, an Italian reporter wrote: "The German tanks churn up the mud and earth with their treads and reach their objectives only after great difficulty...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...