Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White (The Once and Future King) lives on low-tax Alderney, a 3-sq.-mi. dot of an island in the English Channel. There he flaps about in baggy fisherman's corduroys, roams the beaches with a red setter named Jenny, and drives about in a mud-clotted, war-surplus Hillman. He gets along well with the islanders, but fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during the war he prowled western Ireland, and his latest book is a memoir of these years...
...body splattered with black, sticky mud lay off the road near San Stephano on a tiny West Indian isle--flabby, middle-aged, and wet from an afternoon thunder-storm. Courtney Courtney Peabody had drowned in the rain. A half-finished letter found in his hotel room contained his last recorded words: "Gee, mom, it's hot as hell down here. When can I come home?" The letter, like Courtney's life, must remain uncompleted...
...blundering encounters around bends in the jungle paths, of ambushes, surprise dawn attacks, endless forced marches. More than by Japanese bullets, the Marauders were brought low by mite-borne typhus, malaria, amoebic dysentery, fatigue and mental breakdowns. A battalion of Marauders, after seven weeks of marching through mountains, mud and water, was surrounded at Nhpum Ga; most of the survivors were red-eyed, hollow-cheeked, scarcely functioning by the time the siege was lifted...
...Mud & Darkness. A lamp flashed down the shaft 40 ft. below showed that Moss was trapped by the breadth of his shoulders. Ropes were quickly lowered, but Moss was wedged so tightly that he could not move his arms. More serious, the air in the passage was foul. As hours passed, Moss alternately gritted his teeth and joked with the men trying to help him. An oxygen mask was lowered, but there was not even room enough to fit it over his face. After four hours he became delirious, finally drifted into unconsciousness...
...clerk who had been refused time off to help in the rescue quit his job. An R.A.F. mountain rescue unit arrived, followed by crack rescue groups from the National Coal Board and the submarine base at Gosport. Hospitals sent cylinders of oxygen. The rescue workers struggled through the mud and darkness, slithered into waist-high pools. Fifty volunteers were spaced out at intervals in the tunnel to make a hand chain for passing on ropes, food, lamps, oxygen cylinders...