Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late afternoon, Olebogeng arrived in Ganyesa, a collection of mud-brick huts about a mile from the highway. Outside one meticulously maintained house stood Selena, Olebogeng's mother. He shook her hand, kissed his sister and playfully cuffed the ears of two younger brothers. Two other brothers who also work as miners were expected at any moment. His father was still in the fields, but neighbors flocked to greet Vincent. "You don't write, and you don't send money," said his beaming mother in mock irritation. "I should be angry, but you're tired, and I'm glad...
Wanda: Don't blame them, Ralph. Couples want these agreements. In fact, it's the stick-in-the-mud lawyers and family counselors who don't really approve. Robert Herman, an attorney in Rochester, calls life-style clauses "an awful waste of money," and Don Smith, a California counselor, says, "It goes from the frivolous to the ridiculous." He says he has helped couples negotiate "everything from who's going to pick up the doggie poo to the usual stuff on feeding the kids and doing the dishes...
...step. Merely another rare bird: the best damned boot-in-the- mud nature essayist -- piscine, avian or human -- in the business...
...From our village . . . the kulaks were driven out on foot," a writer recalls. "They took what they could carry on their backs: bedding, clothing. The mud was so deep it pulled the boots off their feet . . . They marched along in a column and looked back at their huts, and their bodies still held the warmth from their own stoves." They were then transported to the far north in locked cattle cars and sometimes on rafts along the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. The healthy adults were put to work in the mines or at timbering...
...offing. Originally it was expected before the beginning of the rainy season, which has arrived and will last until February. Now the speculation is that the Iranians may attempt a surprise bad-weather offensive in which Iraq's superiority in tanks and air power would be reduced by mud and thick cloud cover...