Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...betting a few bob on all the Irish horses in England's Grand National steeplechase almost broke the books at Aintree when a loo-to-g shot named Quare Times, running under the colors of Mrs. William Welman of Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, romped home in the mud by 12 lengths. Another Irish horse, Carey's Cottage (20-1), came in third...
Thus went the "Congo Canoemen's Mass." Its drumbeat did not seem out of place to the natives who crowded the mission church of St. Anne in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa. The church's curving Gothic arch resembled the silhouette of an outsized mud hut, and its lofty vaults and arches were modeled after palm trees. The altar was made of two rough boulders topped by a monolith and the simple carved benches resembled witch doctors' ritual chairs. With its glassless windows admitting light and air and its roof covered with brilliant emerald tiles, the church seemed...
...wall lies under 50 feet of debris. It is made of dried mud faced with stone, and it enclosed an area of about eight acres. The inhabitants were broad-headed "alpines" of neolithic culture. They had no pottery or metals. Their tools, beautifully made, were of polished stone...
Diet. In London, Judge Henry Grazebrook gave a divorce to Robert E. Want, 54, after Want explained that his wife had packed his lunchbox with mud sandwiches, filled his tea thermos with broken glass, dumped a pail of garbage...
...tree "trimmings" for leaving the squirrel without home and food caches. Possibly number four had to climb to such heights before reaching a branch that he died of over-exertion. Equally fatal is the rain theory, which visualizes the creature scampering innocently across the Yard, then sinking into the mud with only a brown bubble for a headstone...