Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeast, between the trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties mounted. The Finns, too, left many dead, but the Russian push was so disorganized...
...mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
...from H. M. S. Vernon (as the combined Portsmouth barracks and naval laboratory are still called, after an old training ship long since rotted away). They were the men who, "with undaunted courage and a spanner," sloshed out between tides on a windy foreshore to where, half buried in mud, lay a magnetic mine-first specimen obtained by the Royal Navy's explosion experts. Unbolting the case, ignoring ominous hisses and tickings, Lieut. Commander, Roger Lewis at last thrust his arm inside the mine, unscrewed the detonator, slipped it in his pocket...
...that it was time to go to work fulltime. Last week he had his new business. It was a spa, Arrowhead Springs Hotel, in the San Bernardino Mountains near Riverside, 70 miles east of Hollywood, built over hot mineral springs and fitted for healthful Hollywood holidays with everything from mud baths to bars, from deck chairs to ski slides, minimum rates $13 a day (American plan). At Arrowhead for the opening were such gentry as Arturo Toscanini, Ernst Lubitsch, Edward G. Robinson, Sam Goldwyn. A few days later Arrowhead opened its "curatory," complete with steam caves in which magnates...