Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same hardy bugs had been found by other observers, who wondered why they were there. Dr. ZoBell had a strong suspicion that they were old settlers: descendants of ancestors who had homesteaded in the oil sands millions of years ago. To prove it, he investigated the oozy, smelly mud and slime at the bottom of the sea, which most authorities think are oil sands in embryo...
...From under the roof of my umbrella I saw the washed pavement lapsing beneath my feet, the news-posters lying smeared with dirt at the crossings, the tracks of the busses in the liquid mud. On I went through this dreary world of wetness. And through what long perspectives of the years shall I still hurry down wet streets-middle-aged, and then, perhaps, very old? And on what errands...
True, everything looked very blue down in the Bowl's mud Saturday, and stay-at-homes didn't miss much besides frozen feet. But there were a few flashes of excitement, and one of the greatest for this observer was seeing that big number 72 at the start: Chet Pierce wasn't supposed to be there according to the pre-game prognosticators, and one of the biased inhabitant of the press box was heard to say "ringer...
Last week, the jarrets noirs, pants-deep in another kind of mud, had the time of their lives. In Beauce County's lumber camps, pulp mills and asbestos-mining towns, and in the tidy farm hamlets that line the fertile Chaudiere Valley all the way down to Maine, a hot by-election campaign came to a crackling...
Epstein says modeling is "the creating of something out of nothing. An actual building up and getting to grips with the material." Famed Fellow-Sculptor Jose de Creeft, a 60-year-old Spaniard who has lived in the U.S. since 1928, says scornfully that modelers work with "just mud...