Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus equipped, the pilgrim sets off on his wanderings through a world of serfs and soldiers, wild weather and mud-rutted roads...
Many people have told me what to do-afterward . . . But I was there then and [they were not] . . . Mud and other dirt was thrown at us, and I felt like whipping a lot of people, but I couldn't get to them...
...Along a mud track in the Belgian Congo, a district officer peacefully cycled on his rounds. All at once he heard shrieks of terror, and a horde of natives plunged past him, screaming a word he had never heard before. "Mikimus!" they cried in horror, "Mikimus!" Drawing his revolver, the officer went forward on foot to investigate. At the entrance to the village he staggered back, as out of the depths of the equatorial forest, 2,000 miles from civilization, came shambling toward him the nightmare figure of a shaggy, gigantic Mickey Mouse...
Last year Mr. Adlai Stevenson said: "He who throws mud usually loses ground." . . . In the last month of recent campaigning, Mr. Stevenson seemed to throw a good deal of mud towards the opposition. As a result, perhaps he will not have as secure a toehold as he might like...
Companion to the spreading idea of economic progress, of course, is a feeling of social unrest. For when people begin to move, caste barriers must crack. In one village, a high caste Brahman protested against a former untouchable's building a mud but on the adjacent plot of land. But the Development Commissioner, with a certain toughness in his voice, reminded the Brahman that untouchability was now unconstitutional...