Word: mudding
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...last week's St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30), the final great red-letter day of the school's anniversary year, was celebrated in typically Etonian style, with a staging of the annual Wall Game, a notorious blood sport in which 20 savage nobles flail and scramble in the mud in what is fittingly known as a "bully." Punching is forbidden, but applying "steady pressure" with one's fist upon a face is warmly encouraged. The poet Shelley was once used as a ball. No goal has been scored since before World...
...weather didn't cooperate with the runners. Torrential rains and ankle-deep mud prevented Harvard from running. Instead, it waded...
...women's side, Harvard was hampered by both natural (the mud) and man-made elements (a difficult starting position...
Five months ago, Clayton Williams, Republican candidate for Governor of Texas, took a pledge: "No more mud." His Democratic rival, state treasurer Ann Richards, said amen to the goal of a clean campaign. Those good intentions lasted no longer than a firefly's twinkle. No sooner had the vows been made than both candidates began hurling misleading accusations, tossing insults and making absurd pledges of no new taxes in a state facing a budget deficit of at least $3 billion...
...white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger, is a "legal lynching...