Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...
Georgia Tech's pony backfield slipped and slithered in the mud at Atlanta, and fell before Tennessee, 13-6. It was Tech's first 1948 defeat. In a drizzling rain, North Carolina's undefeated Tar Heels (rated No. 3 in the nation) were held to a 7-7 tie by underdog William & Mary...
...invalid at 19 and died at 24. Until his death at 40, Poe's life had an appalling consistency of trouble-brief periods of success followed by long years of misery, quarrels with one after another of his backers, tigerlike leaps on his fellow poets for plagiarism, mud-slinging campaigns with rival editors. He drank, and at times took opium, stopped drinking whenever his work went well. Yet in each serious battle his enemies raked up the old stories, and in these letters Poe is constantly admitting his guilt and explaining that he has reformed...
...their dismal first half season the Tigers suddenly came to life two Saturdays ago, taking a 16-14 thriller from Columbia. They routed Virginia 55-14 last week and looked more and more like the 1947 Big Three champions who just one year ago trampled Harvard into the Stadium mud...
...gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text and by some of the performances...