Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...82nd Airborne had come a long, hard way to Fifth Avenue and the honor of marching for all U.S. foot soldiers, living and dead, who had "walked through the mud" of World War II. They had jumped and fought from Casablanca to Berlin. Now, in the biggest U.S. victory parade, they marched as though they heard the bugles of Gettysburg and the Little Big Horn, of San Juan Hill and Château-Thierry, sounding with their bands...
...Betty Hayes. Last July Dr. Hayes looked over the sanitary conditions in the company-owned mining villages of Force, Byrnedale and Hollywood, Pa., and decided that conditions were bad. The water had to be boiled before it could be used; sewage overflowed into yards and streets; the streets were mud bogs...
...ZoBell's theory: the bodies of sea creatures, large & small, turn into petroleum if covered deeply and given plenty of time. Dr. ZoBell collected bacteria from samples of deep-buried sea mud. When carefully tended and properly fed, the bugs produced a fair facsimile of petroleum, right in the laboratory. Some turned the fatty acids of decomposed animals into hydrocarbons characteristic of petroleum...
...chili was dumped on their plates by brash, young (26) ex-Sergeant Marion Hargrove, author of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove. In a speech aptly called "See Here, Private Enterprise," Hargrove talked up to the N.A.M. like a Dutch nephew telling off his stick-in-the-mud uncles...
...what war has made of the uniformed American and what he hopes to make of himself and others hope to make of him in peace); Up Front, soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin's grimly amusing picturization (with sardonic matching text) of the fact that heroes also dislike death, cold, mud, hunger and regimentation; These Are the Russians, Richard E. Lauterbach's joyful discovery that Russians are people; Report on the Russians, William L. White's controversial discovery that Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report...