Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home from the Capitol. It was early evening when.Chuck's car got stuck in the mud on a road leading to Meyer's farm. Up drove a second Ford; Bennet High School Junior Class President Robert Jensen, 17, was out on an early school-night date with Classmate Carol King, 16. They stopped to help. Starkweather shot both through the head with his .22 rifle, pushed their blue-jeaned bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body...
Across the river, in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman,*inside a mud-walled courtyard cut off from the street by a corrugated iron door and guarded by a somnolent sentry, an intelligent, tough and tenacious Sudanese politician sat on the edge of a sagging couch, downed numberless cups of coffee as he conferred busily with a steady flow of visitors. His Excellency Sayed Abdullah Khalil wants to win next month's election for his Umma (Nation) Party and keep the post he now holds: Prime Minister of the Sudan...
...that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
Seeing the picture you had [Dec. 23] of the Holt family and the eight Korean-G.I. children they had adopted was a highlight for me in the holiday season. One of those eight was a little girl that I picked up from the mud of a paddyfield in Korea 2½ years ago. She was frightened and ostracized by the other village children. I came in contact with Mr. Holt on his first trip to Korea, and this little girl was one of the first he adopted; I shall always remember him for his genuine love and concern...
...passes, pitched laterals and ran like an Army tank all through the rest of the game. When Army did threaten, it was Oldham's interceptions, as much as anything, that threw them back. And in the final quarter he caught an Army punt, navigated 44 yards of Philadelphia mud to score once more. Once more he kicked the extra point...