Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice any mud...
...pensions without increased taxes, a hearty welcome for all shades of warring Texas Democrats. To Rainey's last-minute charges of Ku Klux Klan backing, he quipped: "He has lost his fast ball, he has lost his curve ball. All he's got left is a mud ball...
...million Illinoisans who went to their 90th State Fair in Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
Afghanistan is bigger than France, but it has only one movie theater. The capital, ancient Kabul, has only one café. And the café is allowed to open one week in the year. Last week was it-and Kabul's mud walls fairly shook with the greatest celebration yet of Jash'n Istiklal...
...trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...