Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat ships, etc.) had a high priority in World War II. It was Elephant Bill Williams' job to get it out. Later, on active duty as a lieutenant colonel, he used the animals to haul bridge timbers and supplies, hoist bogged-down army equipment out of the mud...
...cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke out in its paint locker. Nobody was seriously hurt, but an investigation was started to find out how such a daylight collision could have...
...used the nom de plume of Stendhal, wrote Lucien Leuwen between 1834 and 1836, while he was French consul (for the regime of King Louis Philippe) at Civitavecchia, Italy. Since the novel is, in parts, a Louis-Philippie and a mock of constitutional monarchy ("a halt in the mud"), it could not safely be published while the author was "eating off the Budget." Stendhal therefore was in no hurry to get on with it, and died before he finished the job. First published as a whole in 1894, five decades after Stendhal's death. Lucien was acclaimed in France...
Gregory Peek plays Ringo quietly and earnestly; his chaps do not slap and his spurs do not jingle. Nobody gallops in pursuit of anyone else, and there is a large mud puddle in the middle of the main town's main street. The supporting cast is large and lazy and authentic. "Gunfighter" is a western which deals in people--not just in firepower...
...years later, in 1857, an officer who remembered Grant from Mexico had the idea of driving out to see his old buddy. Stopping a seedy, mud-spattered farmer in a wagon, he asked the way to Grant's house, got back the answer: "Well, I am he." Cried the shocked officer: "Great God, Grant, what are you doing?" Grant, who sold wood for a living, had a reasonable reply ready: "I am solving the problem of poverty...