Word: mud
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...Beranek, who received a Ph.D. in applied sciences from Harvard in 1940, recalled that while here, a professor once told him “that discovering something new was like falling down in the mud and coming up with diamonds...
...that isn’t “falling into the mud and coming up with diamonds” I don’t know what...
...lawyers who graduate from Harvard Law School may receive when Booker gives the Class Day speech tomorrow. Just one year after graduating from Yale Law School in 1997, Booker moved into a $547 per month apartment in one of Newark’s worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen County. His pedigree is glaringly elite: after graduating from Stanford...
...vigorous and partisan campaign, however, he risks demolishing the glittering image of a mature and moderate statesman which he has built up over the past four years. He has gone a long way towards living down an unfavorable national reputation, but democratic cartoonists love to portray Nixon throwing mud-pies, and any indication of “low-road” politicking on his part will send them gleefully back to the drawing boards...
...radio as white U.N. helicopters dropped down into their base in the town and whisked civilians and other aid workers out. Mortar, artillery and rocket exchanges flattened much of the market town over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said 21 of its men had been killed. The southerners refused to give...