Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flank of a 60-mile front twisting across the mountains between Yangpyong and Pyongchang. Right from the start the going was sticky and slow. Enemy resistance was light at first, but rain fell heavily, turning frozen paddy fields into treacherous brown slime. Drenched men and vehicles slithered through deep mud...
...rest, and told reporters so. They could keep up the propaganda, he quipped, and it might work. He had decided definitely that it could not be Key West; pictures of the President lolling on warm sand, he thought, would not look well beside pictures of G.I.s slogging through mud and snow in Korea. But along about the first of next month, Harry Truman might leave Washington and head West. Instead of blue water and palm trees he would look at guns, planes and tanks. He would tour factories and arsenals as the Commander in Chief inspecting...
...Broker hit the spur at 5:43. The first cars lurched wildly. Just past the trestle, the steam locomotive toppled over on its side. There was a thunderous crash. One after another, the cars smashed ahead, tumbled down the embankment in a tangle of steel, slicing glass and mud-hurling bodies from their sides like maggots...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...
...road crossing where one road branched off toward Seoul, a fur-hatted old man stood alone. The Communists had gone that way the night before, he said, pointing toward Seoul. Behind him, the street was deserted except for a few twittering women stealing rice from a mud...