Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OVER TWO YEARS, WE OF THE NEW REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IN PHILADELPHIA HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT TIME WOULD DISCOVER AND TELL THE WORLD THE NEW "PHILADELPHIA STORY." WE HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT THE CLEAR, CLARION VOICE OF TIME WOULD RISE ABOVE THE DIN OF THE CHATTER AND "LET-THE-MUD-FLY" CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE HELD BY OUR LOCAL ADMIXTURE OF RIGHT-WING, LEFT-WING . . . THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBJECTIVE APPRAISAL OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE 1949 CAMPAIGN AS MEN OF ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PURITY...
Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
...buildings are now swimming in deep grayish mud, but the plot will eventually be landscaped...
Faced with another year of sloshing through mud ooze and runwater, the Society phoned the Cambridge Public Works Department and issued a formal complaint. Commissioner William R. McMenimen replied that he would look at the 12-foot strip this morning and decide whether to cover it with a stone-dust fill...
Outside on the mud splattered field, the varsity practiced its offensive in a live scrimmage against the biggest and the toughest looking bunch of freshmen this writer has ever seen. When it took the role of defender, the varsity's opposition was Ben McCabe's junior varsity...