Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain-drenched field under a darkening sky, Adams House literally floated past Kirkland on Friday to win, 18 to 0. In the first half both teams wallowed around in the mud ineffectually, but early in the third period Harry Booth of the Gold Coasters broke through on an off-tackle plunge that developed into a 55-yard touchdown...
...even if General Patton was in the wrong and did make a mistake, why couldn't he have been assigned to duty in the U.S. without all this smearing and mud-throwing? Why didn't the powers that be have him reassigned and then point out to the public that it was done to give him a rest? After all General Patton has been overseas for over three years with only a few days at home...
Eliot's omnipotent eleven, despite mud, injuries, and a stubborn Winthrop line, crushed the Puritans, 26 to 0, yesterday, following the 33 to 0 drubbing they gave Kirkland Tuesday. Only Lowell's hapless. Bellboys, beaten by Adams 24 to 0 Wednesday, stand between the sailors and the first half title of the intramural league...
...event. But most readers are likely to be impressed by the deftness with which he goes from door to door in the Paris streets of 1928, uncovering the first faint stirrings of that perverted violence which, a decade later, joined its Nazi counterpart to trample France into the mud...
...good actor, he played his first big role in knee-deep mud at Churchill Downs, ploughed theatrically from last to first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...