Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stuck in the mud of the last U. S. Depression (1921), Business was pulled out by a great acceleration of the automobile industry, teamed with a building boom long deferred by the War. The automobile industry then looked back a decade and smiled at its gangling youth. It looked ahead a decade with confidence and composure. Both were justified...
...good Californian, he expressed a horror of mud and a wet field, to which, he says his players are unused
...Belgrade General MacArthur was the only foreign military expert invited to watch while a division of the Jugoslavian Army maneuvered in the mud, marched between lanes of peasants who threw grapes at the soldiers. At a banquet of generals General MacArthur joined hands with the others, did the national dance, called kolo, which consists of running around the table in one direction, then running around the table in the other. Then he made a speech...
From this pitch of lyric arson, Cyprus' revolt inevitably calmed down as armed Britons rushed to Storr's aid. It took a troop of Royal Welch Fusiliers all night to bump 50 miles over awful roads from their encampment on Mount-Troodos. But soon after dawn their mud-spattered trucks snorted into Nicosia and the mob was cowed...
...third day Pilot Louis Leigh of Maritime Airways Co. of Sydney flew his seaplane low over the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay, sighted the wreckage of the mail plane floating bottom-side-up. On the fifth day he spotted the body of Pilot Simon, red with Cobequid mud. One hand clutched a monocle. There was a fresh cut on the head. Physicians declared that Pilot Simon had died of exposure only a few hours before his body was found...