Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the speech was cut to fit the charge it answered. The attack on Nixon's fund as picked up by the New York Post (see PRESS) derived most of its power from the assumption that some of the mud would stick and thus disqualify Nixon (and, through the doctrine of guilt by association, Eisenhower) from continuing a moral crusade against corruption & Communism. The specific legal and moral case against Nixon was so foggy and so vague that Nixon would have made the mistake of his life if he had tried to answer with specific legal or ethical arguments...
John Fox continues to pack mud on his molehill. But what started as an obvious attempt to turn cry Red into Post subscriptions, may end up making innocent librarians jobless...
Bell came near to developing an inferiority complex once when interviewing a Kurdish chieftain in his mud hut near the Russian border. When the tribesman asked how many wives and sons he had, Bell owned up to one of each. Said the chieftain: "That makes me twice the man you are. I have two wives and two sons." Back in his headquarters in Beirut this week, Bell is feeling better about his social status. With the arrival of the Richardson, the TIME bureau, at least, can boast of two wives...
...diamonds, the pearls, the barrels of whisky, the mountains of rare coins, the statues of nudes. Outside the view was in striking contrast. The newsmen looked out over one of the world's worst agricultural slums: the Nile delta. The peasants toiling there-like most Egyptians-live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread; the rich, white variety is available only to the rich). Three out of four own less than an acre of land, two out of three suffer from hookworm and malaria, nine...
...with Lord Kitchener and a young British war correspondent named Winston Churchill to reconquer the Sudan from the Mahdi. Captain Naguib married a black-eyed Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters of the Blue Nile with the barefoot village boys, played soldiers in the muddy fields where the fellahin raised their cotton crops...