Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every veteran remembers it. Here are the actual sights of battle which evoke its sounds as well-the off-stage hammering of long-snouted guns, the lazy pouf of shrapnel in a blue sky, the invisible stutter of machine guns, the pink of rifle fire, the scrunch of mud, the loud curses, the grunts of the living, the groans of the dying...
Rescuers found Amy Mollison sitting in the mud beside the total wreck of the Seafarer, cradling her half-conscious husband's bleeding head in her lap. It took hospital surgeons an hour to stitch the pair's gashes, but they had escaped serious injury. Said he: "I was so tired I couldn't tell where I was putting her." Cried she: "He couldn't see! He couldn...
...marvelous thing is the crawfish. He revels in mud and in slime. He wallows in gutters, this raw fish, And has a most wonderful time...
...marvelous thing is the crawfish. He revels in mud and in slime. He wallows in gutters, this raw fish, And has a most wonderful time...
...bigger than her brain. Lomas, Cordelia's rapscallion brother, had been courting her for years, and though Catherine despised him she finally gave in, to discover too late that she had made the mistake of her life. To save Carr's name from being dragged in the mud by Lomas, Catherine withdrew her capital from the firm, left Yorkshire forever with her ill-meaning husband. Carr saved what he could from the firm's wreck, but from then on it was hard scratching all the way. Other disasters came: His only daughter died of pneumonia...