Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average German dole-drawer draws two marks [48?] per day). Others were too young to draw dole payments, or disqualified. Out of all the clamoring 5,000 volunteers (many white-collar men and former clerks) the Government selected 120 Saxons for its experimental platoons, sent them to dig wet mud...
...noise like an explosion and cries for help. Faulkner ran out to the beach, roused neighboring fishermen. In the darkness they could see nothing; but again came the anguished shouts from the bay. The tide was out. For two miles from the beach stretched a sea of soft red mud on which no man could walk. For two hours the shouts could be heard while the watchers waited for the tide to rise. Just as a boat was floated, the shouts died away. For an hour the rescue party searched the bay, then had to run for shore lest...
...accomplished nothing; it has expounded no new ideas. Had it brought some constructive criticism in effort to improve on existing conditions, then the Hoot might have something to make a noise about. It cannot be particularly proud of the unoriginal sport of standing in the gutter and slinging mud at houses but recently cleaned of some of the same grime...
...gate the party was met by a force of 200 farmers, blocking the entrance. Without a moment's hesitation the 200 farmers fell upon the sheriff's men, doused them with water, plastered them with mud, pelted them with rocks, clods and aged eggs, menaced them with pitchforks. Through the melee the Law's truck forced its way into the Lenker farm. Farmer Lenker & friends promptly halted it, forced Sheriff Maxson to pay $5 damages, then shooed the truck back into the road. By this time the deputies were on the run. Dr. Malcolm, who tarried longer...
Artiglio II seaman, "in some mud the divers sent up from the Egypt's galley- cursed smelly mud!" Other "finds" washed by nose-holding sailors from the pantry mud: ¶ Brass disk stamped "P. & O." (the Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...