Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ears, glanced anxiously from the suspended bomb to a nearby ambulance. Everything was ready. Two truckloads of irreverent army goatherds amused themselves by bleating in imitation of the goats. Here, there and everywhere, trailing the skirts of his green slicker, hat drooping with rain, pants spattered with mud, gesturing excitedly, hopped Mr. Barlow. The goats munched...
...western China-a wilderness before they arrived-medical facilities, new manners, new dress, new farming methods, reading and writing (since 1938 nearly 50,000,000 Chinese have been taught to read and write). Their students, of whom a third are entirely supported by the Government, live in bamboo and mud huts, 16 boys or eight girls sleeping in a single room. They eat boiled cabbage, bean soup, a few other vegetables, often suffer from acute undernourishment. They do their own laundry, are awakened by bugles at 5 a.m. in order to make the most of daylight, save electricity. Having given...
Gallerygoers saw a complete record of 2,000 years of Mexican art, from the artistic mud pies of the archaic Huaxtecs and Tarascans (500 B.C. to 500 A.D.) (see cut p. 58, top) to the latest paintings of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. From the Huaxtec mudwork (similar to that of today's Pueblo Indians) Mexico's artists graduated to the only finished stone-carving and temple-building of the Mayas and Toltecs. When, in 1521, the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish Blitzkrieg, Mexico's artists turned from feathered serpents to waxworky saints, from...
With the irrationality of a peeved child, and his characteristic perversity in misjudging issues, Mickey Sullivan has been throwing mud at Harvard's latest philanthropic scheme. Following the University's gift of an expensive X-ray machine to the Cambridge Hospital, Mickey opened up proceedings in the city council to raise enough money to purchase the machine and thereby take control of its operators away from Harvard...
...last week at Miami Beach.* The 350 convening tourist-camp owners agreed to free their industry from rookery-seeking Romeos. As for the rest of Detective Hoover's indictment, one U. M. C. official snorted: "So it is 'Hoover again.' A little more of the old mud...