Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Portobello Road I walked up an alleyway on the underside of a huge elevated highway and then turned left into St. Ervan's Road, which stretched from underneath the motorway to a field of mud and the beginnings of a housing development on the other end. Barrie's was number 39, but he'd warned me not to look for a number: halfway down on the right, pink door, he'd said. I passed a kid on a rickety bicycle, a man in an undershirt fixing a beat-up old car. The houses, all built together, were varying shades...
...guide accompanied the family to the border clearing, a muddy field. He told them that the bridge located across the clearing lay in Austrian territory. "We just walked across toward the bridge," Tatrallyay recalled. "My mother lost a shoe containing old gold coins in the mud...
...newcomers to the primitive art of political mayhem. Adlai Stevenson, whose puns were superior to both Muskie's and Nixon's, once characterized Barry Goldwater as "a man who thinks everything will be better in the rear future"; he declared on another occasion: "He who slings mud generally loses ground." Franklin Roosevelt's foes insisted on calling his bright young advisers "the Drain Trust" and referring to some of his programs as ushering in a new "Age of Chiselry." In the 1800s the critics of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli labeled him England...
...Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging to the word also are the French associations, bonder, 'to pout' and bone, 'mud.' " Not to men tion a reference to the poet Baudelaire. After you've grappled with Finnegans Wake, any pun seems accessible...
...eight summers, have descended like locusts upon the Cathedral City of Winchester, England, to join the Winchester Archeological Excavations, have not endeared themselves to the local elderly ladies. As a unit, the diggers are young, dirty and loud. They look like hippies, and swagger about the ancient city with mud-caked trowels hanging from the hip pockets of their filthy jeans. They play soccer and picnic on the Green in front of the Winchester Cathedral, and perch on the tombstones at night...