Word: mud
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...ones in her arms. The pace never slackens. The driver who is to take Madhu and the child to their new home steers her into a monsoon and steals her money. Enter Kamal (Rajesh Khanna), driving by; he overtakes the brigand, engages in a hilariously speeded-up river- and mud-fight, and takes Madhu to his place to dry off. Turns out Kamal was the dead husband?s best friend, and that this noble fellow is a heavy toper. He?s been drowning his sorrows since his wedding day, when the bride... whom he had never seen... never showed...
...picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter plane, able to lay down enough fire to decimate a small army...
...tunnels and safe rooms and secrets, the soldiers knew to scrape the paint off the walls in the event he was hiding behind them. So they cordoned off the area and took out their tweezers, searching every corner. On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander...
With so much mud on one hill, it’s no wonder that the Steps are proud to be American (SUV-owners...
This American cacophony is not unprecedented--see Father Charles Coughlin in the '30s, or the partisan free-for-all of the early Republic. Nor is it all bad. Politics has always been a mud fight--better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. And even the anger industry sometimes recognizes such a thing as going too far. MSNBC fired aptly named right-wing host Michael Savage this year after he told a gay caller, "You should only get AIDS...