Word: mud
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...Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...
...first, the tornado was just a wispy tendril trailing from a cloud--too fragile, it seemed, to do any harm. But suddenly it spawned three new funnels that spiraled around their parent in a deadly dance. Then, as the car his partner was driving skidded along a mud-slicked road near Hanston, Kansas, Robert Davies-Jones glanced nervously through a rear window and saw that this menacing whorl of dust and debris was following a bit too closely behind. Just as wild animals sometimes turn and track their hunters, Davies-Jones realized with growing alarm, the tornado he had started...
...serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered in mud and cow manure...
...Cross official based in South Africa, recently returned from Angola with graphic memories of the damage mines can do. "You see a woman working in the fields," she says, "trying to hoe her crops, and she has no legs. She is up to her waist in mud...
...kind of anti-Americanism (along with the rest of the godless liberal queer whiners favored by the National Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least as American as his critics--a compulsive Puritan who realized that the City on a Hill had been built in a mud-slide area. The very thought of this moved him to gusts of bitter laughter, and these still blow from his work. Did he exaggerate? Of course; that's what large-hearted moralists do. There are some truths that speak only from the well of exaggeration...