Word: mud
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...population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread...
Last week, near snow-swept Mud Lake, Idaho, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission undertook to allay fears. It staged a nuclear accident in miniature, deliberately sabotaging a small test reactor's primary cooling system to see if the back-up system would avert a blowdown...
This is a world away from the battle fields of World War II, when a generation of G.I.s depended on the frill-free G.P.s (for general purpose, and hence Jeep) that could growl through rivers of mud and over impossible obstacles. General George C. Marshall called the Jeep "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare," and the infantry man developed a love affair with his Jeep that was sketched by Cartoonist Bill Mauldin in his Willie and Joe series...
...savagely funny--like a script by William Faulkner and Jean-Paul Sartre. Good books, some of those novels, but sometimes just too frustratingly weird. Crews also used to write a column called "Grits" for the pre-Felker Esquire, and the best of them stick in your memory like Georgia mud to your boots--an old, nearly-blind mule trader sagely discusses the art and artifices of a trade that is almost dead; a poacher takes Crews alligator hunting in the Florida swamps. And now in A Childhood, we have an account which blends the best of the columns...
...family lived. It was a very rugged road and we had to use a four-wheel drive to get back into this camp. I had been insulated from extreme poverty before because I lived in one of the settlements. This man lived in a traditional round mud constructed hogan, with no windows, a hole in the roof to let out smoke and let in light, and an old mattress on the floor for a bed. The ceremony he did with me involved my humbling myself before all of nature, and truly feeling, through intensive prayer and meditiation, that all nature...