Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...
...military crisis was not easing. On the central front all action had bogged down in snow and mud. Bad weather prevented government planes from dropping supplies to their forces trapped north of the Huai. South of the river, Nanking's wretched defenders struggled eastward to block a Communist thrust to the Yangtze between the capital and Shanghai...
...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
...anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three miles from his mud hut. Told about the abolition of untouchability, he said sourly: "I would like to see the day when some of these words are turned into action...
...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...