Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand ards college football has recently ranged from pitiful to deplorable, California demanded the right to be rated among the nation's best. In rainy Seattle, the Rose Bowl-bound Golden Bears made it five straight this season by rubbing Washington's nose in the mud, 21 to 0. California's highly advertised Fullback Jack Jensen couldn't seem to get untracked, but Halfback Jack Swaner, a superior mudder, had a big day, scoring all three touchdowns...
Sophomore Phil Bolster moved from end to tailback yesterday as Art Valpey scrimmaged his two platoons simultaneously for the first time this season in the mud at Soldiers Field. Valpey termed the practice session, "not very satisfactory...
...whole idea of the picture seems to be that it will wow the fans to see Miss Garson in tights, floundering in the mud, playing at comedy. But it is no news that Greer Garson has good legs (vide Random Harvest), or that she is a skillful comedienne (vide Valley of Decision); nor is it particularly funny to see dignity, whether real or superimposed, mucked...
...steamers of the Naviera Colombiana, the biggest river operator, had been stuck in the mud for days; rain last week raised the river enough to float them. Meanwhile government dredges kept up their running battle with mudbanks and sandbars, but the dredges were badly outnumbered...
Said a resident of El Fanguito last week: "When we came here, we had to wade through mud up to the knees. Munoz filled in the streets. Before he came into power, many people here lost their poor little homes because they could not pay their taxes. Now we pay no property tax. How shall I vote? For Munoz, all my life...