Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasingly impressive Yardling football team trampled Cheshire Academy into the ankle-deep mud of Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, taking their fourth straight...
...being sued for taxes." Actually, both Garcia and Yulo are considered personally honest. A rarity among veteran politicians, Garcia has never been accused of enriching himself in office. Even opponents have conceded that suave, handsome Yulo is "a clean drop of water in a pail of dirty Liberal mud." Both are profoundly pro-American, but Yulo emphasizes his business experience as equipping him best to deal with the nation's teetering economy. "If you elect me, I promise to treat you as kindly as I do the laborers on my estate," he told one audience...
...Mud makes it rough on the kind of passing on which the Crimson relies, and its attack, involving hard-pressing half-backs, puts great pressure on its own defending fullbacks...
...would have taken more than six inches of mud and some questionable officiating to deter the Crimson soccer team Saturday, as it easily overpowered Wesleyan, 5 to 3. Once again it was a well-balanced team, offensively and defensively, which gave the varsity its second straight win after three consecutive ties...
...While Italy's press screamed of "bloody civil war" in the tiny contained nation, San Marino's own partisans were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then sent a couple of thousand police to set up a blockade on all roads leading into the embattled republic, in the hope of starving out the Communists ("Italy will not send her tanks into...