Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ribbon Creek, a murky, treacherous tidal stream that ranges from 100 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at low tide to 250 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep at high tide. To reach the stream, McKeon had to lead his men across a 100 ft. border of deep black mud carpeted by yard-high swamp grass. He did not hesitate, although he later admitted that he had "never been in the area before," a tragic lapse from the basic rule that a troop leader must know his ground. Behind McKeon, the recruits sank deep in the mud, slipping and sliding...
Courage Is a Sometime Thing. Lieut. Loggins realizes, though, that wartime courage is a sometime thing, and as his outfit gets battle tired and combat weary, he begins to value Harris as a steady professional who gets on with the job in the face of paralyzing mud, disheartening casualties and raking German artillery fire. The two men even first-name each other in rankless camaraderie. Yet something about Harris always rankles in the back of Loggins' mind, something growing out of their backgrounds. Harris has an easy, aristocratic assurance bred on a large Southern cotton plantation; Loggins...
Raise the Dead. Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...
...unanswered was the question that has been dangling ever since Jagan's removal from office and the suspension of the colony's constitution: When will self-government be reestablished? The likely answer: when the flow of development funds has put an end to the ragged poverty, the mud-hut living standards and widespread unemployment that combined to bring Communist Jagan to power in the first place...
...several inns, truck-driver counterparts of Scheherezade's cameleers slept in the open, and townspeople flung wide their doors. About i a.m. a gaunt wolf swept down from the mountains like an Assyrian on the fold and attacked sleeping Sahneh. The beast loped lightly over the low mud walls and slashed at sleeping villagers around the scattered huts on the out skirts. The wolf went for the head, as is the way of wolves, and in two hours found 13 victims...