Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, for good measure, he attacked half a dozen New York City newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "communistically inclined newspapers" of Chicago, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Record "which gathered their mud buckets and tried to bespatter [my] name...
...always quickly seen. In cold, rainy weather, padded black rags hide the scrawny arms and swollen bellies of China's hungry. It takes hot days when thousands shed their rags to see the effects of slow mass starvation. In villages like Chi Ho, a shady brown clump of mud. brick farmhouses twelve miles from dusty Hengyang, you see the famine. Two months ago, when there was still rice, Chi Ho had 140 inhabitants; now it has 80, the remainder having died or gone off to the city...
Chinese newspapers had reported that the famished Hunanese also ate mud and clay. We asked the interpreter if this were really...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...
Playing in a drizzle on a field that looked more like a mud puddle than a lacrosse field, the lacrosse team skidded to its third straight defeat at the hands of a rugged Tufts outfit, last year's New England champs, by a score of 13 to 5 last Saturday at Medford...