Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
...documents and a curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master of a 20-ton yawl. By the time he was 21, he had made and lost a goldstrike fortune...
Local wits, standing in mud puddles at the foot of the steps, had a field day. The rumor spread that Barnes had found a goldfish in each pocket, but was not substantiated...
...hour Leftist counteroffensive amid deep mud, as the fine weather which has favored Generalissimo Francisco Franco's advance for six weeks gave way to rain, Rightists were stopped in their tracks, then managed to resume their offensive, announced the taking of 2,000 Leftist prisoners, nearly all youths under 20. The Rightists accused their retreating foes of having massacred 100 civilians of Alcala de Chivert before evacuating this town, claimed on entering it to have found the Leftists had burned the mayor alive at a stake...
...third day went off without anyone taking a pot shot at the King. As muezzins wailed from the minarets, the tall, dark-haired Countess, dressed in a white satin gown, mounted a coach drawn by four prancing white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament, united the couple...