Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They walked and hitched rides for six days to reach the border, enduring sub-zero cold, rain and snowstorms that left the children shivering uncontrollably. They marched high into the hills of Kurdistan along narrow mountain roads deep in slippery mud, thinking a thousand times that their world had come to an end. The worst moment came at a mobbed road crossing, where Omar and Talia, each with two children, were separated as they struggled aboard different trucks. Omar did not see his wife again for two days, and in his arms was their seven-month-old daughter, weakly sobbing...
...Estragon, Ardell enjoys an easy rapport with Jones on stage. Sporting a dirty leather jacket, a filthy sweatband and a five o'clock shadow, Ardell looks like Indiana Jones after a forage through the mud. He delivers a strong and energetic performance, though his dramatic range tends to diminish as the play progresses...
...sheer mass of refugees. The total number of northern Kurds and southern Shi'ites fleeing toward Iran or Turkey is estimated at almost 2 million. Many, like the 200,000 or so on the mountaintops around Turkish Hakkari, can be reached only by dirt roads often made impassable by mud. "We can send aid only on mules," says a Turkish official...
...nightfall the long file of vehicles, most plastered with mud as camouflage, departs with machine guns poking through the windshields and horns blaring. The men burst into song, raising their fists and waving their weapons, their faces beaming, their eyes aflame...
...unexploded mines before workers can even begin laying pipelines for the tons of seawater the fire fighters will use to cool the burning wellheads. And if the damage to the wells is sufficiently severe, fire fighters may have to drill diagonal relief wells in order to fill them with mud or cement, a capping process that can take months and cost as much as $10 million per well. By their estimates, Kuwait may still be battling oil blazes two years from...