Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first practice, it was sleeting and cold, and we had to go down and stretch in the mud. Afterwards, we all sat around being filthy and drinking beer. I was hooked," the former aquawoman said...
...streets of Xian, the principal city in northwestern China, are a hub of activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle...
...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...
Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
That was the summer of a somewhat kinky toga party and a so-called mud dance, which had to have been against the law in several states. It was the summer after the famous last-day streak, a season which had nearly brought a law suit from a shocked pair of parents. It was also the summer a middle-aged pianist cracked up altogether. Before her exile, she had wanted to hold a music salon in the barn and charge admission. She had cried a lot, and everyone was sort of relieved...