Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second-half was another mud bath, and scoring threats by both teams were halted by fumbles and interceptions. Late in the final period, Gibby Warren shook off several Eli tacklers and raced 30 yards for the final Crimson score, with the Bulldogs protesting vainly that Warren's knee had touched the ground
Undefeated and untied in ten games going into yesterday's contest with Yale, the Crimson Freshman soccer team saw its hopes for an undefeated season burled in the mud of the Business School Field by a fighting '50 eleven from down New Haven way by the score of 1 to 0. For three and one half periods the score was deadlocked 0 to 0, with neither squad having much of an advantage, but half-way through te fourth frame the aquamarine boosters counted when their right wing, Dick Griggs, headed the ball into the nets...
...rain which inundated Soldiers Field did just as effective a job on the Business School soccer fields, making the footing extremely slippery and turning the goals into little better than mud puddles. As a result, the action was dotted with sliding collisions and awkward falls, but in spite of the fact that the ball was water-logged and difficult to handle, booming kicks featured the play...
Last September, when Government General Fu Tso-yi marched on Kalgan, Wang and his company of 40 men stood at Tsining, a mud-walled Suiyuan railway and mining town where one of the civil war's bloodiest encounters took place. After 23 of his company had died and he was forced to retreat, depression gripped Wang. He asked himself and his men: "Why do we Chinese fight against Chinese? Of what avail was this sacrifice at Tsining...
...Dahl's recipe: ''Mainly clams and milk, with just a soupc.on of mud...