Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village of mud huts...
Among the Misri Effendis, the long-suffering John Does of Egypt, there were some who framed the likeness of President Naguib in their mud homes by the Nile, or sought to touch his clothes as he passed by. There were others more concerned with the fact that loaves were smaller, sugar more costly and wages no higher than they were when the President came to power a year ago. When Naguib gave 853 lucky fellahin the deeds to some of the rich man's land, the new landowners were gleeful and gay for the photographers (who are always...
...Compton of Alphoretta, Ky.: "I have been a coal miner for 33 years and also a deputy sheriff of this county for eleven years. I have not shot or killed anyone, nor have I beat up anyone. I am the son of John Compton and Ida Hall Compton of Mud Creek...
...lowering weather, there was no U.N. air support. The U.N.'s booming Long Tom 155s, 105-mm. howitzers and multiple heavy machine guns filled the valleys with their clamor. Gun barrels got so hot that they sizzled in the rain. Supply truck crews struggling through red-brown mud quickly dumped their shell loads at new gun positions and headed back for more...
...Police, this national insult, should exist no longer, now that there is no more booty to cover up. Now we have a First Magistrate who has the people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...