Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in the rain-drenched game at Detroit's Briggs Stadium, the mud-daubed players blended into a black, slithering mess. Numbers disappeared, so did faces. Shivering spectators could barely tell one of the home-town Lions from an invading Green Bay Packer. But by then the Lions had splashed to the game's single, spectacular touchdown, booted three field goals, scored a safety, and had given up only two field goals in return. Their defensive team showed no signs of permitting the Packers to escape from an 18-6 defeat. And by then, no one needed...
...more typical of the show as a whole was Robert Motherwell's entry-loud, messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...
Behind these small lives and bourgeois problems, history unfolds like a rolling backdrop. There are vignettes of barbed wire and mud from the trenches, glimpses of the headlines and early newsreels of the period, episodes of the air war with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac...
With a second quarter shift of wind against Harvard, Princeton organized its attack in an effort to carry the ball through the hungry pool of mud left in mid-field by Friday's rain. Harvard's short passing attack slowed halfway through the second quarter after the team's spirited first quarter burst, and as the half ended, fullbacks Lanny Keyes and Chris Provensen found the Princeton line strong and very anxious to score...
Mother and child are currently traveling up and down Northern and Southern Rhodesia holding healing services. Last week, before mud huts and in forest clearings, Elias opened his services to open-mouthed Africans: "Do not mock that a child should dare to speak to his elders, because I bring you the words of God." Christian missionaries in Rhodesia plan to dissuade their converts from following little Elias, but they are waiting to see whether the boy is just a freak or whether he will really catch on. Meanwhile, Elias has expressed his earthly ambition. Said he: "I want to become...