Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was favoring the Germans. Bogged in the mud 30 miles east of Dnepropetrovsk was the crucial drive of Colonel General Nikolai Vatutin's armies, striving to reach the Dnieper and cut off the Germans in the Donets Basin...
...close by, British Command troops had long been training under real fire, and unwary men had indeed been killed. Now U.S. Army Rangers were in training there, in a course as dour and harsh as the snow that capped the crags and sluiced icy water into the ankle-deep mud of the glens...
...Rangers were over the side in the icy loch and splashing ashore. Mud-coated from the day's earlier work, they formed in three waves, headed up the hill, one wave advancing while a second fired bullets and mortar shells over their heads at dummy targets, and the third swung wide in a flanking movement...
...doled out by Senatorial courtesy would set up a veritable Smorgasbord of patronage for the local party bosses, and provide for a return to the unsavory politics o the Jackson and Grant administrations. The corruption and inefficiency consequent from mass appointments was realized when Andrew Jackson's friends tracked mud into the White House and into government agencies. A "big stick" in the hand of Teddy Roosevelt sponsored the infancy of civil service, but the verbal discipline of Franklin Roosevelt has not sufficed to prevent the rebirth of the old child of confusion...
Donald picked himself up and went over to where Madame lay, crumpled and unconscious, her blue slacks and shirt defiled in a mud puddle. "Come on, wake up," he shouted gruffly, then sang: "She flew through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young woman. . . ." She stirred, moaned. Donald lifted her to her feet. He walked her to a farmhouse, made her change, put her back in the car, asked her what she wanted to do. "We'll go on to Shanghai," she said...