Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashions in political expansion have changed since the days when Genghis Khan swept through this dry and rocky land, leaving in his wake ghastly skull pyramids to act as scare-rebels. By maintaining a big embassy staff in mud-walled Kabul, Russia has used gentler means to win Afghan acquiescence...
...Tagalog father and a mestizo, (mixed Spanish-Tagalog) mother, he had something of a head start-both his parents were schoolteachers. Their salary was ample: $6 a month each. Their home was a typical thatched nipa hut on stilts, with chickens scratching and hogs grunting in the mud beneath the ladder leading up to the door. Manila in those days was a full week's journey away, over what are still wild, jungle-covered mountains...
...Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock. Crewmen left the ship to join the strikers, forced the skipper to go back. Soon 18 ships were blocked in the canal...
...think you have any offensive when you are reeling back with two Panzer armies at your throat? . . . Montgomery made a plan, carried it through and the battle was won. There is no getting away from that. Happily, there is no need for us to fling any mud back. The Americans were magnificent. . . . Monty says without qualification that the battle of the Ardennes was won primarily by the staunch fighting qualities of the American soldier...
There might be method in the Army's apparent madness. Said a prospective witness: "They want you newspaper guys to get fed up and clear out. When there's no more interest in these things in the U.S., they'll start slinging mud...