Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan witness and campaign advisor, Rep. David Stockman (R-Mich.), provoked hisses from the audience by saying the change had come wholly from new oil sources in Alaska "discovered when Jimmy Carter was still slinging mud in Georgia...
...Mississippi novelist William Faulkner. Somehow, that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes I have, catch an L.A.-bound plane and spend the next three days and nights pondering how to frame this gaunt communication into a story...
...journey began with a brief ferry trip across the Shatt waterway, then a hired taxi to Khorramshahr. Crossing a flat, dusty plain, laden with mud-camouflaged military vehicles, our party reached the Iraq-Iran border post of Shalamche. There, eight miles from Khorramshahr, dozens of 130mm artillery guns were hunkered down in a vast arc, pelting the Iranian-held port with booming shells...
Cambridge's luck soured--the colonists befriended the Indians, reducing the need for strong fortifications. And Winthrop apparently grew tired of the new town--one historian reports that when two walls of his home, caulked with lime instead of mud, washed out in an October rainstorm, he was unwilling to rebuild, and fled to his Boston residence...
...question the committee is asking is, 'How can we improve what's already here?' The fact is, what's here has been here forever. We need a means of addressing what's here--a Third World center," Jackson said, adding that the committee "seems to be wallowing in mud...