Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time or another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa in Bombay ("an Indian George Arliss, complete...
...midnight, a U.S. newsman slipped through the windows of the Sian Guest House, evaded sleepy sentries, slopped through the mud of Shensi's capital to a dark crossroad. Muffled, slippered figures challenged him in low tones. Satisfied, the Chinese motioned the foreigner into a v;aiting truck. At dawn the truck was 30 miles beyond the border of Kuomintang China, lurching through the mountains toward Yenan, capital of Communist China. The year...
Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...
...Mud, Marriages, Muck. One of White's helpers lugged along a pot of honey, wherewith to soothe the voluble candidate's rasped throat. White reminded the voters that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley is vaguely related to His Lordship. Lord Hartington countered with the statement that White had himself actually been a follower of Mosley (when Sir Oswald was a Socialist...
...Rain and mud did not dampen fans' enthusiasm, especially the Arabs'. They lost their robes betting on their hero, Private Omar Koudri of the French Army, who was badly cut by the Fifth Army's Larry Cisneros of Los Angeles, Calif., fourth-ranking welterweight in prewar...