Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
...down they went, again & again, but this maneuver, so useful in punting, failed completely to give the buoyancy necessary to back the Nelson off the mud bank...
...from Portsmouth seven destroyers. Resting from their jumping, the Nelson's crew leaned over the taffrail and cheered themselves hoarse while the seven little boats skidded at 35 knots, like terriers around a cow, closer and closer to the great ship in an effort to sweep the mud away with their wash. They made tremendous waves but the only result was to swing the Nelson still more firmly on the bank and completely wreck the pontoon bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport, three-quarters of a mile away...
...Echo de Paris inquired: "Does Premier Chautemps know that among those listed for the Directoire 'without being consulted' was his own War Minister, M. Edouard Daladier?" Whatever the Premier or the Chamber knew last week, the ''Battle of Mud" came to an abrupt end when a motion that the Chamber appoint a commission to investigate L'Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea...
...seven starters sloshed through Texas mud to the barrier for the third race at Epsom Downs one day last week, every eye of the shivering crowd was on Out Bound and the peanut-sized figure astride him. Jockey Jack Westrope, a 16-year-old apprentice, had already ridden 299 winners in 1933. A five-day suspension for rough-riding had just expired. Now he was out to win his 300th race before the year end-a record only two other jockeys in U. S. and English racing history had made, the last in 1908. In the first two races...