Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern Californians have grown almost blase about their recurrent forest and brush fires, flash floods and mud slides. Indeed, some were able to grasp their Bloody Marys on the morning after last week's disaster and joke about their survival. Yet there is something singularly shattering to the serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...
...ferry is not leaving on time because a truck has gotten stuck in the mud of the riverbank after driving half-way off. We wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . while no one does anything to budge the truck so the ferry can leave. If it doesn't leave pretty soon, we will miss the plane to Vientiane, and who knows when there will be another one to get us back to "civilization?" Doesn't anyone realize the urgency of the situation...
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When the psychiatrist asked "Isn't it fun?" the judge replied with an embarrassed grin, "I must tell you something. I was never permitted as a child to play with mud; my mother punished me when I came home dirty. My wife and I got into a lot of fights about our son because I couldn't stand seeing him playing with mud. Now I know how it feels and I am happy we can give our son a different experience from...