Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defunct medical school squatted quietly near Waltham, Mass. The 200 acres of grass and mud were violated only by a stable, a single classroom building, a few houses, and The Castle, a fantastic melange of turrets and crenelations...
...drill bit downward-to 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, 15,000 feet-their hopes sank as fast as their costs rose. Drillers had to battle hole temperatures up to 350°, pressures up to 20,000 lbs. per sq. in. Bills for a special heavy drilling mud skyrocketed. It took eleven hours to pull the pipe out and replace a drill bit. Last November, when costs reached $8,000 daily, the partners considered abandoning the well...
Nikita Khrushchev had been born in a mud-and-reed hut in the village of Kalinovka on the Kursk steppe, where as a barefoot boy he had tended cattle. He grew up to have the Russian peasant's rough manners (even today he sometimes stuffs his mouth with food at public banquets, picks his teeth with his fingers). He was short (5 ft. 5 in.) and thickset with a round face and jug ears. He had small, dark, merry, merciless eyes and was as shrewd and crafty as he looked...
...strong current, was rising. McKeon stepped from the mudbank into the chill (58°) water and turned upstream, hugging the shoreline. Turning, he called out: "Everybody O.K.?" Behind him, the marching column was floundering. Again he shouted: "Everybody O.K.?" The answer came loud: "No!" Men were deep in the mud; Recruit Raymond Delgado yelled that he was up to his chest in the muck. McKeon turned to Recruit John Michael Maloof and ordered: "Go help them out." Replied Maloof: "O.K., but let me have your stick." Using McKeon's broomstick, Maloof pulled Delgado...
...night in 1916 he was writing in the mud shelter he had built himself among the Tuaregs, when a band of marauders hauled him outdoors and shot him. Almost 40 years before, he had written: "Think that you are going to be martyred, stripped of everything, stretched out on the ground, naked, unrecognizable, covered with blood and wounds, violently and horribly murdered . . . and hope that this will happen today...