Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, five Glaoui sons gathered at Marrakech to divvy up the sprawling wealth El Glaoui had left. Reportedly there was $17 million in cash lying around the old mud-red palace. There were palaces and houses in virtually every major Moroccan city, stock in lead, cobalt and manganese mines, bank accounts in Paris, London and Geneva. The rumor spread that El Glaoui's sons were maneuvering to block a plan sponsored by Morocco's new government to redistribute the huge land holdings El Glaoui had amassed in southern Morocco...
...Schappl's Inn out into the raw, squally afternoon. Before them, on the Hungarian side of the double fence of barbed wire that now seals off the border, lay a young girl in agony. Her right leg was smashed and streaming blood, her face smeared with blood and mud. She rolled and writhed, all the time screaming. When she saw the Helenenschacht people she cried, "Please, please, help me, help...
Attorney General Brownell's annual report reemphasized the importance of President Eisenhower's civil rights bill, at present stuck in the Mississippi mud of Senator Eastman's Judiciary Committee. Brownell mentioned many letters demanding action by the Justice Department in "shocking" cases where Negroes had been denied legal equality. These letters are, in effect, a public mandate for some form of the administration bill, which extends Justice Department jurisdiction to active prosecution of civil rights abuses...
...Triumph. Mohammed returned to Morocco in triumph. All Morocco went on a week-long celebration. Berbers staged feasts in crenelated mud-walled casbahs. In the cities Arabs paraded with flags and portraits of the Sultan. In factories and mines, work stopped. In the hills, guerrillas calling themselves the National Liberation Army looted French plantations, murdered rich Moroccan farmers who had sided with the French. In the subsequent panic, thousands of Frenchmen packed up and fled to France, taking with them capital roughly equivalent to Morocco's whole annual budget...
Three inches of mud kept the varsity baseball team from putting its Greater Boston League championship on the block yesterday afternoon, but M.I.T. is expected on Soldiers Field again this afternoon. Again...