Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name a family, in America or Europe, that doesn't have its feet planted squarely in the mud...
...town because for three months he and his chieftains had been slaughtering living slaves in memory of the dead King Adolo. The stench of rotting corpses was overpowering. Blackamoors had been crucified to ladders made between two trees, left there to feed the buzzards. On the city's mud altars the carved tusks and terrifying bronze heads, displayed in Manhattan last week, were caked thick with dried human blood...
...told newshawks, "I lost my dog from the garage after I locked the door myself. The pup was smart. Still, he couldn't unfasten the door himself. I figured it all out and it seemed to me that mom and pop gave the pup away, because he tracked mud into the delicatessen. You know how that made me feel. If they didn't like my dog they didn't like me. I'm going to look for my dog. I think I know where he is. If he isn't, well...
...head of his tribesmen, wrecked and raided the small railway station of Lassarat, seized rifles and munitions, but prudently faded into the mountains without tearing up the tracks. ¶ Day after day Italian aviators continued to drop bombs on Daggah Bur, a heap of dust that once was a mud village marking the northernmost point of Italy's advance on the South Front. The town was abandoned. Ethiopians insisted that a wounded chicken was the only casualty. ¶ Most graphic description of the reason for the stalling of Italy's advance came last week from United Pressman Webb...
Year ago the California Jockey Club, headed by Novelist Peter B. Kyne, baptized the new $500,000 Bay Meadows track, 20 miles out of San Francisco, with high hopes. Promptly these hopes were dashed. Rain always transformed the new track into a morass of mud which always dried out hard as rock, ruined the hoofs of many a horse, the disposition of many a jockey...