Word: mudding
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PERHAPS THE BEST parts of the novel are its action scenes. His style deft and spare, Maspero tells how Cat and Antoine try to steal food stamps one rainy night. Cat drops the stamps in the mud just as the brothers notice that lanterns are approaching, swinging ominously through the dark...
Jumping off at the entrance to my car, I landed in the bed of gravel on which the tracks rest. Sliding down the steep slope toward the soft mud below, I stepped over several cables. Fortunately, they were not carrying current...
...travellers marched through the mud to the Twin River Community Center, which doubled as an emergency shelter, others searched frantically for loved ones...
...late afternoon, Olebogeng arrived in Ganyesa, a collection of mud-brick huts about a mile from the highway. Outside one meticulously maintained house stood Selena, Olebogeng's mother. He shook her hand, kissed his sister and playfully cuffed the ears of two younger brothers. Two other brothers who also work as miners were expected at any moment. His father was still in the fields, but neighbors flocked to greet Vincent. "You don't write, and you don't send money," said his beaming mother in mock irritation. "I should be angry, but you're tired, and I'm glad...
...From our village . . . the kulaks were driven out on foot," a writer recalls. "They took what they could carry on their backs: bedding, clothing. The mud was so deep it pulled the boots off their feet . . . They marched along in a column and looked back at their huts, and their bodies still held the warmth from their own stoves." They were then transported to the far north in locked cattle cars and sometimes on rafts along the great rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. The healthy adults were put to work in the mines or at timbering...