Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midmorning of the following day the Nationalists were in full retreat, plunging northward through Shanghai's jammed and clamorous heart. Some outfits marched through almost in parade formation; others, caked with mud from the battlefields, streaked through the city in terror and confusion, taking with them everything they could lift, carry or roll...
...physical discomforts of the front shoved most of this attitude to the background, the report goes on. In fact, the mud and K-rations made a deeper impression than the constant threat to life and limb...
...still lifes, he had found a little of the space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud. Villon reversed the process: his landscapes seethed with the brightest, sharpest and sometimes shrillest colors he could...
...himself, should they always be round? Maybe oval wheels would do some jobs better. Last week, Kopczynski (now 31 and president of Buffalo's Pivot Punch and Die Corp.) displayed a set of something he calls "Walk Wheels." They are oval in shape and can flip-flop through mud or sand that would founder conventional round wheels...
Obvious advantage of the oval wheels: they do not spin themselves into the mud, as round wheels do. They are "geared to the mud": the pointed ends dig into it while the flat sides, whose curvature is like that of a much larger round wheel, support the weight of the vehicle. Inventor Kopczynski says his experimental unit has about twice as much pulling power as if its wheels were round...