Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West across lonely Nullarbor Plain, the cars slewed through mud flats and jounced across frame-cracking bogholes. Nine cars overturned in one nightmare, 557-mile stretch from Albany to Narrogin in Western Australia. Of the 90 cars from eight countries that left Melbourne, only 79 got as far as Perth, all but two losing points all the way. As in most rallies and reliability trials, cars were penalized for passing secret checkpoints too early or too late, for breaking traffic laws and for making any of a long list of repairs...
...painted black and the figures left in the original reddish color of the vase. Painter and potter worked as a team. The potter threw his shape on the wheel and handed it over to the painter, who put his design on it while it was still in a dry-mud unfired state...
Britain's 30-day war in the Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began...
Monarchist Lauro, who rushed back from his favorite spa of Fiuggi, labeled the whole affair a "political maneuver" by the Christian Democratic government to cut into his political strength in southern Italy. He accused the government of "throwing mud at the fair city of Naples," scoffed at the possibility of a "few missing millions," and cried: "Rome is trying to make an assault landing in the territorial waters of Naples." Said a Lauro aide: "Every real Neapolitan can only admire the way we operate...
...McEwen flew back to Europe to gather a loan exhibition, only to find that "most of the people I approached on the Continent had never heard of Rhodesia, and those that had saw their cherished treasures hanging in a clearing in the jungle or round the walls of a mud hut." Last week, as a result of McEwen's persistence, his gallery was staging the biggest and best exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings ever assembled south of the Sahara...