Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually some around the wayside crucifix at the top of the hill...
Soon our mule is in a sweat. We must spare him, so my Chinese priest companion and myself get down to walk in the mud, which reaches to our ankles and pulls off our shoes...
...Reuben P. Snodgrass, pilot of the Flying Automobile (TIME, Nov. 4), ran out of gas over Chula Vista, Calif, and landed in a mud flat. Snodgrass was unhurt, but the newfangled contraption was wrecked...
...suburbs and walls of Hofei bristle with defense works Chinese style. Mud-brick pillboxes, screened with briars and entwining tree branches, flank the gates at every compass point. Behind the barricades is fear and hate...
When a gale blows up and the course is soggy with rain, the grim men who play big-time golf are apt to mutter: "It's a Demaret day." Like a mud-running race horse, Jimmy Demaret (pronounced demerit) always seems to do his best when conditions are worst...