Word: mud
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...square outside, readying their pickups and rocket launchers for battle. A small unit of American special forces arrived, and their commander slipped inside. A few minutes later, the Alliance chiefs jumped into their jeeps and sped across the desert, trailed by 5,000 troops. Dostum scrambled up an ancient mud mound and raised his binoculars: on the horizon a thin line of black dots showed where the Taliban was waiting...
...last Wednesday night Mullah Fazil, Taliban commander of northern Afghanistan, leader of the 13,000-strong Kunduz garrison and deputy of supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, drove into Dostum's mud-walled fortress to talk surrender. The two men and armed aides shared vast plates of qabeli, the Afghan staple of rice and mutton, and bowls of pistachios, to break the Ramadan fast. "They were laughing and chatting," commander Mohammad Anwar Qureishi, one of the Alliance leaders present, told TIME, "and hours before, they had wanted to kill each other...
Even if food arrives in time, it's too late to build shelters: mud walls need three weeks of warm sun to dry, and that won't come until spring. Of the 6 million in need, 3.4 million live in the north. "There has been a humanitarian crisis here for years," says Goetghebuer. "Now it's becoming a disaster...
...papers on natural history, setting the Guiness record for shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since they were sure to get sloppy with mud. A favorite pastime was to hack at Gen. Wood with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant...
...papers on natural history, setting the Guiness record for shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since they were sure to get sloppy with mud. A favorite pastime was to hack at Gen. Wood with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant...