Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sindri, on the banks of the River Damodar, where five years ago were only mud huts in paddyfields, a new $48 million ammonium sulphate factory stood last week. It was the first big project completed by Prime Minister Nehru's government, and a source of swelling pride to India. In a land where famine is often a threat and sometimes a reality (3,000,000 people died of starvation in 1943), the development of artificial fertilizers to stimulate food crops has long been a dream of the Nehru government...
...office of President of the United States," said he, "is a public-relations office . . . He spends most of his time talking kindly and giving lectures to people and begging them to do what they ought to do without being begged." The President has to take "bricks and stones and mud and things." Washington, he recalled, was labeled a dictator, Lincoln was called an ass and "old Cleveland . . . was thoroughly and roundly abused, but after he was out of office for about 15 years, they said they loved him for the enemies he had made ... I hope you will love...
...sand-blown sheik into a millionaire. Seventeen years ago, Qatar (rhymes with butter) was no more than a sunburned thumb-120 miles long and 50 wide-sticking out into the Persian Gulf. Periodically, howling shamal winds blistered the low, monotonous plateau. Doha, seat of government, was a mud village, and the only sign of industry was a few palm groves by the sea and a few fishing boats. The only foreigners were American missionaries...
...annual (since 1911) Monte Carlo Rally, which ended last week, is not the world's longest or fastest race, but is certainly one of the most exacting ever devised for man or machine. At the finish, some 72 grinding hours later, only 16 of the mud-spattered cars crossed the line unpenalized by some form of delay, breakdown or accident, or for missing the deadline at one of the obligatory checkpoints along the route...
...usual, Spring came with a wet chilly wind off the Atlantic. It came as the last snowfall dissolved, turning roads and grassplots alike into wide stretches of mud. The fact that two Pennsylvania groundhogs have spotted their shadows or that the Weather Bureau predicts a colder month ahead is immaterial. The only evidence required to prove Spring's arrival is the line of undergraduates waiting outside Memorial Hall to scribble their names a dozen times on sheets of orange cardboard...