Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These Indians have no sense of the road," bellowed an American business representative as he steered his new Dodge through a crowd of laborers on the narrow mud lane to Bombay. Between blasts of the born he pointed at a young worker crowding his left fender and growled, "Take that fellow over there--you never know which way be may turn...
...painters who rival Matisse in importance: Wassily Kandinsky (for daring), Paul Klee (for imagination) and Pablo Picasso (for passion). Picasso, the only one still living, has always been more easily bored than the others, and has always come back bursting with new beauties. If much of his work is mud, the best is thunder and lightning which makes Matisse's rainbow splendor seem a bit thin by comparison...
...George Welsh look like the hottest passer around. Badly mauled, the Irish just managed to hang on to their six-point lead. But the going was so rough during the last few minutes that Notre Dame Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi had to run out the clock by slithering through the mud toward his own goal...
...genuine Etruscan antiquities began to appear again on the black market. Stealthy detective work told the authorities where the treasures were coming from. Another lagoon, the Valle Pega, was being drained, and as the waters shallowed, the Comacchiesi stole out at night in their eel boats and probed the mud with steel-tipped poles. When they touched something hard, they dug in the mud and drew out an Attic vase or an Etruscan bronze. The archaeologists called the cops, and the Comacchiesi were routed, but not before they had dug a considerable amount of treasure...
Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...