Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
...with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle of mud and blood, died before any human could reach...
...Ohio the river which gives the State its name went hog wild, first broke all records established in the 1913 flood, then proceeded to top the even more disastrous inundations of 1884. Full of foam, mud and debris, the Scioto River swept down on Portsmouth, which seven years ago threw up a $750,000 sea wall of steel & concrete to keep the Scioto and Ohio away from its doors. Last year to the 62-ft. wall was added a supplementing levee of sandbags and Portsmouth stayed dry. This year the flood was not to be cheated...
Until that time few reputable witnesses had ever seen the wonders of the Yellow stone. In 1806 John Colter, a private soldier in the Lewis & Clark expedition, came back with stories of hot fountains and pools of yellow, pink and green mud too fantastic to be believed. In 1869 three amateur explorers made a 36-day pack trip into what was already known as "Colter's Hell," came back to report that they were so overwhelmed by what they saw that they would not risk their reputations by describing...
...quarter when they stopped the Boston Redskins one foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best ball carrier, Alphonse ("Tuffy") Leemans...