Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish of thirst, or else they have to cross great stretches of mud, open to their natural enemies...
Near Missouri Valley, Iowa, two speedy motorists failed to notice the "Bridge Out" sign on the Boyer River. Their car leaped 70 feet across the water, landed them unhurt in soft mud...
...Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would never come in his lifetime...
...Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him. Since the State of Mississippi uses only one license plate, which is in the rear, it is evident that Guide Hall was able to distinguish this car by one of Mississippi's famed products. "Mississippi Mud." You neglected to state in your article that Mississippi probably has fewer paved roads than any other State in the Union...
...Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This...