Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Game last week, after Yale had rolled to its sixth touchdown, the exuberant Elis decided that it was time to rub some noses into the mud of Harvard Stadium. Off the Yale bench trotted a diminutive player wearing No. 99, unlisted in the program; he took his place at right end as the teams lined up for the point after touchdown. Instead of the standard place kick, a scoring pass was flipped to No. 99. The hopped-up Yales carried the new hero off the field in triumph, pummeling and pounding him as though he had scored the deciding point...
...Yale Men returned from Harvard last weekend wrapped in the shining garb of victory, but besmeared by Crimson mud-not mud from the football field (though we had that too), but mud slung by the ill-informed, ill-meaning Harvard CRIMSON. So we had a better football team this year, does that mean that Harvard has to make up for it by accusing Yale Men of excessive cheating? The CRIMSON said, (at Yale) "there is certainly a lot more talk about it(cheating)." This, anyway, is a step in the right direction for Yale. From your implication it follows that...
...lived in the same town a rich man. He was compassionate and tireless (though tactful) in charitable works. Everybody loved him, and he loved everybody-even the unworthy poor man. He gave the beggar a cottage on the castle grounds, and said nothing when his guest swore, drank, tracked mud on the floor, spit on the rugs, ate like a hog and threw a glass of water in the butler's face. Everybody told the rich man that he was a fool to waste his time and money on such an ingrate-he was beyond help...
...repelled and nauseated ... by such horrors as: The Great Beast, by J. Symonds; The Illusionist, F. Mallet; The Skin, C. Malaparte. Please, please let the mud remain where it belongs. Don't even mention them in your fine periodical...
Churchill continued: "Thousands of tons of mud and rock from the sea bottom were thrown many thousands of feet into the air, and a high tidal wave was caused. The effects of the blast and radioactive contamination extended over a wide area. H.M.S. Plym was vaporized except for some red-hot fragments which were scattered over one of the islands and started fires in the dry vegetation...