Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring football closed up shop for another year last Saturday afternoon amid the puddles and mud of the current rainy season. Full-scale games on Wednesday and Saturday climaxed a month of maneuvering, scrimmaging, and learning plays; and head coach and strategist Richard Cresson Harlow has nothing to do now but dream up ideas for next autumn's affairs...
...Century peasants somehow contemporary and kin to Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yet a band of conspirators, whose faith was a tenth as old as the simple stone cross in a village church, could capture these works and values-capture the very proofs that man, forever stained by blood and mud, could nevertheless be humble, free and great...
...light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...
...half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared, lashing their tails, on state...
Only Captain Wes Flint was able to do much damage, picking up a second and a fourth in the hurdles. Wes appeared to have the final of the 120-highs well under control before he skimmed the next to last barrier too closely, knocked it into the mud and wound up second...