Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the first of some 400 P.W.s sloughed through Panmunjom's red, viscous mud to the explanation tents, chanting "Death to Communism!" The first P.W. balked at his tent, fear taut in every line of his body, and cried: "No! No! I will not go!" He struggled with three Indian guards, and all four burst into the tent. "Please sit down," said the North Korean explainer. The P.W. swore at the explainer in hoarse, rasping Korean: "You are a pig and a dog and a descendant of pigs and dogs." He kicked at the explainer's table...
...captivity. His roughest time, he said, came when the Communists questioned him for grueling periods-once for 68 hours, then 44 hours and then ten hours-trying to get him to reveal the defense plans for Japan. After one session, as he lay sleepless and freezing on the mud floor of his hut, he resolved to kill himself...
...Rain, mud, and a strong Princeton defense throttled a last period Crimson surge, and the JVs bowed, 14 to 6, to the Tiger junior varsity football team, at Soldiers Field Saturday...
Saturday rain, driven by gale winds, turned the Business School Field into a sloppy sea of mud, through which the Princeton Tigers waded to a 2 to 0 victory over the varsity soccer team...
...house guest was Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton. At week's end, the Waynes agreed to agree on money, but John still intended to have his day in court. Hollywood was touched by his pained candor as he drawled: "I deeply regret that I'll have to sling mud...