Word: mudding
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...rain and mud of Soldier's Field Saturday, the stickwomen scored twice--on Cindi Ersek's tip-in at 27:31 of the first half and Gia Barresi's shove with one minute left in the game--to beat Dartmouth, 2-0, in front of 120 rain-soaked spectators...
...precisely in its explicitness, "the quick-fix appeal" of coding into law a short-term memory of more deeply rooted, that is, historical inequalities. "Should we burn it?," Suleiman warns, is a trap. Scrubbing away at unpleasant surfaces is a domestic chore. On one hand, one wants to sling mud for mud; on the other, one is then reduced to a similar level of indecency, instead of providing new examples of civil education...
...high school cross country coach used to tell the story of a girl he coached who lost a shoe in a mud puddle at the state cross country meet, and still finished ninth...
...season, NBC introduced nine series, all of which were canceled. Worse, most of the shows were about as sophisticated as a mud- trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling...
...Children's Crusade, for example, he sings of the pointless deaths of young infantries in World War I: "The Children of England would never be slaves/ They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves/ The flower of England face down in the mud/ And stained in the blood of a whole generation." The song would be harmlessly banal had he not tacked on the final stanza: "Mid-night in Soho Nineteen Eighty-Four/ Fixing in doorways, opium slaves/ Poppies for young men, such bitter trade/ All of those young lives betrayed/ All for a children's crusade...