Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 1944 Moscow said: "No important changes. ... " The great Mud Offensive, which in seven weeks had swept from the Dnieper to the Carpathians, had ground to a halt...
...bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur. They carried long durra stalks, symbolizing spears. As they approached the sacred river, they chanted age-old incantations, their meanings lost in history. At Nile-edge they met another bodyguard, bearing bamboo poles with ostrich feathers, defending the revered founder, Nyakang. With thongs of twisted grass, the guards of Nyakang bound the willing Anei Kur, marched him into Fashoda...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
Playing in a mild drizzle that turned the field into a mud patch, the Harvard team was able to carry the ball over their opponents' goal line but once during the game, when Dunney Smith smashed through the ANZAC defense. John Loos' kick from the 25 yard line was successful, adding two points to the three scored by Smith a minute earlier...
...Moscow 548 guns thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...