Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commencement planners must transform the mud flats of late winter Tercentenary Theater into grassy lush meadows, collect huge quantities of chairs to seat thousands of guests, and install an infallible sound system to accommodate even the most hard-of-hearing alumnus...
Robinson was handed the worst team that came along, the Cleveland Indians, and made it respectable. But he was still considered a little volatile. While a player-manager, he socked a Toledo Mud Hens pitcher, who, upset at having been cut by Robinson, nearly beaned him in an exhibition game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers...
...mentioned that my second visit with Nixon occurred at a dinner last spring in Saddle River. The ground outside his house was soaked with rain, and no sooner had I entered the living room than I realized that I had tracked great clods of mud on the yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow...
...Mud is sometimes called the "great equalizer," and the rain came pouring down yesterday. There is a limit, however, to how much an effect Mother Nature can have...
...spends much of his time in the precincts of purgatory. The veteran commentator was a young reporter when the capital began to mobilize. "Was it conceivable," he wondered, "that the leadership of the Western world in wartime could fall to a city only a few generations out of the mud? A city that still boasted 15,000 privies...