Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn two army ambulances drove onto the regimental firing range, and the ten men, their hands bound, stepped out on trembling feet, looked across the bare, floodlit ground and saw ten wooden posts newly erected before a high mud wall. Guards tied each man to his post. "Don't hurt me," said Major Atarod. "I'll be quiet now." "What do you mean, brother?" smiled Colonel Siamak. "It's finished." He turned to the guards tying him to his post and said: "If we had succeeded, we'd have been less tactful with...
...Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied a book that is considerably better than the original libretto, with a shift of the plot to Jacksonville, Fla., and into high colloquial gear...
...HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 29--Harvard achieved its first undefeated season since 1989 today when five runners, led by Al Wills and Don French, sloshed through the Yale golf course mud to capture the Big Three cross-country crown from Princeton and Yale...
...Pete) Reider, the Yardling captain, was not hindered at all by the mud. Turning on a tremendous finishing kick, Reider broke the three mile course record with a time of 16:10.6. This lowered the old mark...
...addition to Stadium mud, the Ohio backs will face a solid Crimson line, perhaps the most encouraging part of the local football picture. Encouraging enough, in fact, to rate the varsity at least a six-point pre-game advantage...