Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel the same toward that flat-bottomed mud-splatterer of TIME as for the man who kicks my mother in the teeth. I would treat him the same. TIME has been getting by too long with stalking the Church, always ready to deliver a stab in the back. It has not the guts to come out in open opposition. The Church is aroused slowly, but when she does act, look out. The Catholics of San Francisco will take care of the News; the Catholics of the U.S. will take care of TIME...
...story on the forgotten front in Italy, and one that weary, haggard soldiers had intimately known for over a year-rain, mud, wind, high rivers, all but impassable roads and mountains. And always there were the determined, skillful Germans, fighting with professional craft...
Typical is the campus of the "University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
...Dirt. In Spa, Belgium, famed for its mineral and mud baths, Sergeant Edward Shelton of San Antonio relaxed in non-G.L, therapeutic dirt...
...Mud and Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...