Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that's what parents were created for." So observed Ogden Nash, and as if in agreement, Mercer Mayer has produced Two More Moral Tales (Four Winds; $3.50). No adult is needed to explain these textless jokes about pigs who put on elaborate evening wear and then head for mud, or about a venal fox who sells fur coats that are still alive. The Chicken's Child, by Margaret A. Hartelius (Doubleday; $4.95) is similarly pictorial. A chicken accidentally hatches an alligator egg. The green baby thereupon eats corn, pies, wash-tubs and tractors, yet still manages...
Says a teammate: "He got his face shoved in the mud and got pushed around, but he seemed to like...
...striking good looks and Harvard law degree once prompted White House Consumer Affairs Adviser Virginia Knauer to describe her as an example of deceptive packaging. Dole, who narrowly won re-election in 1974, convinced voters that he had been unfairly besmirched by Watergate: he appeared in TV ads with mud on his face...
...contest, the Harvard squad had little trouble, as the Crimson forwards consistently drove their opponents off the ball and into the mud, defeating them...
...Nobody in England, France or Germany, not even the generals, had any idea what trench warfare-the dominant reality of the Western Front-would be like. When it came, it was indefinable: hundreds of thousands of young men existing like stupefied moles in the badly shored-up gutters of mud and decaying flesh that zigzagged their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe or the Butte de Warlincourt by the abstract decisions of rigid or incompetent staff officers. At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, 110,000 English and Australian troops started walking toward the rusty...