Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard followed up a 15-0 pasting of Brown last Wednesday with an 18-5 shellacking of Cornell last Friday. But those easy wins paled in significance next to yesterday's cakewalk in the mud...
...mud Saturday afternoon the Elis were finally able to dump their woes and the stigma of going 0-for-the-eighties. They dumped it squarely on the Crimson, posting a 13-5 victory...
...mud-spattered book that was found with the body of the soldier offered a revealing glimpse of the fanaticism that has kept the war at its fevered pitch. The 193-page battlefront primer, titled Book of Souvenirs: Propaganda for the Front and for the War is the work of the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Guards and was intended to embolden the young volunteers in suicidal human-wave attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses...
...description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh teaches the need for patient observation: "If you go around beating the world with questions like a reporter or federal oral history junior sociologist ... all the answers will go back into mystery like fiddlers into pluff mud...
...other side of the pond are a white gazebo and two large bird cages, nestled in trees by the water. In one cage is a pair of peacocks, the female mud-colored, the male electric blue even in the dark. Jackson walks over to a stable, where a ram named Mr. Tibbs and a llama named Louie stick their heads out to nuzzle. We go to the garage and climb the stairs to the second story. It is a picture gallery. The walls and ceilings are papered with hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the Jackson family. It is like...