Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most jaded U.S. groan-&-grunt promoter blush. But the panting young women were symbols of a national effort. With free elections, polite policemen and Coca-Cola machines, Japanese had sought to ape U.S. ways. Now the ultimate imitation had been achieved-female wrestling on a mat of liquid mud...
...Ever play basketball? We have a fine team, but we need a center." The boys have work to do, but never as punishment (the only punishment is loss of vacation). Once a new pupil was assigned the job of sweeping the stairs and defiantly spread mud on them instead. Starr polished the stairs himself. Then he congratulated the boy, in front of everyone, for cleaning the stairs so well. That did the trick...
...three-quarter pole, Assault was 17 lengths behind the pace-setting Natchez, who liked the sloppy going, and Stymie was five lengths behind Assault. Coming into the stretch, it happened. A couple of mud-spattered horses seemed to pull away from the other trailers. From the finish line the leader looked like Assault, and cheers went up from the crowd. Actually, it was Stymie. He had overtaken Assault, and with thundering strides passed him. Then he took after Natchez and beat him by a neck at the finish of the 1⅜ mile grind...
What Will Happen? But these maneuverings were remote from the India of mud and dung and (endless toil, which wondered in bewilderment what was happening to it. The little man in India had never asked for Pakistan or Hindustan or even for independence, except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
Camel Meat for the Poor. Through the mud-brick city Sayed Abdul Rahman's spanking new black Chevrolet picked its way. As it entered the square before the tomb, butchers hacked off the heads of three camels and seven oxen. They threw hunks of bleeding meat to the city's poor. Unruffled, the Mahdi's son stepped daintily from his car, unfurled a light blue parasol, mounted the notables' platform...