Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowds at Point Mallard shoving and pushing through the red clay mud of north Alabama to get a glimpse of the Senator proved that Kennedy is not completely anathama to the South...
...trees, canvas and perhaps a lean-to for shelter. TIME's Boston correspondent Philip Taubman is one such purist. Last week he and his wife Felicity tromped the Long Trail in Vermont's Green Mountains, their enthusiasm only slightly dampened by a chilling rain and acres of mud. Herewith Taubman's defense of nature...
...numbers of Summer School students will reside in the Yard. But this summer, Yard residents will delight to the thunder of wrecking expeditions, and the Yard that bore grass for Commencement--one of the only such green spots on the Harvard campus--will transform itself into a less pleasing mud and dust landscape...
...reasons for taking such a tack. As Editor Daniel Kraminov of the Soviet weekly Za Rubezhom bluntly put it: "A few years ago, certainly, we would have underlined more strongly the dirtiness of American political life. Now we are observing an old Russian proverb which says: 'Never throw mud into the house you are about to enter...
...most valued treasures, Marlene Dietrich explained to the London Daily Express, is a bit of penicillin culture, the first ever developed by the late Sir Alexander Fleming. How did she win this memento? "When I saw how his discovery saved the lives of soldiers who had lain in the mud for days, I had to see him with my own eyes. A meeting was arranged-a dinner party, I cooked. We became very close friends," she explained. "Men are better than women," Marlene went on. "I fancy myself as probably having more of a male brain. I am not easily...