Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young and healthy Harvard women's cross country squad overcame mud, drizzle and nippy temperatures in its season opener yesterday to defeat a small UMass contingent at Franklin Park...
ALBANY, N.Y.--Splashing through a sea of mud, the controversial South African Springboks played an American rugby team Tuesday night, hours after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to stop the game...
...flow, but the ancient pipes and hard-to-find shutoffs thwarted their efforts till nearly 11 p.m. When they finally fixed the leak, the Yard drained quickly and subsequent inspections revealed only minor damage to building basements and underground library stacks. By early morning, only a layer of mud was left as proof of the nighttime flood...
Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...
...real authority. Yet Jesse Helms' Congressional Club is the very model of modern, high-technology politics, a shrewd mating of computers and direct mail. Helms and his minions have built what amounts to their own nationwide political machine. It has combined newfangled fund raising with old-fashioned mud slinging to become one of the most powerful forces in American politics...