Word: mudding
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...forget the sound. "The trees were popping and the boulders rolling," recalls Steve Moon of the fire department. "Anybody who wouldn't be nervous listening to that coming down the hill, there's just got to be something wrong with them." What came down the hill was mud: tons and tons of soggy, slippery, onrushing mud. The same thing was happening in the neighboring town of Bountiful, where 1,000 people had to be evacuated. Mud slides and floods all last week caused millions of dollars of damage and the loss of 16 homes in Utah...
These epithets tend to cancel one another out, as they usually do and one's better impulse is not to get into the mud with these guys. But I have watched this band of movement-wrecking, non-sense-spouting dictators disrupt the left at Harvard for four years now, and I know how destructive their infantile disorder...
...size and enthusiasm of the gathering for "Eeyore's was matched only by students at Pennsylvania State University Despite gray skies and a steady drizzle that turned their fairgrounds into a sea of mud about 12,000 people turned out for the ninth annual "Sy Barash Regatta" celebration...
...initial and transplanted nationality, Chia, Enzo Cucchi, 32, and Francesco Clemente, 31, tend to be bracketed together as the "three Cs." In fact they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden earnestness: apoplectic chickens and mud slides in the cemetery, done in umber and black two inches thick. Nor does he seem a forced talent like Clemente, a glib draftsman whose "expressive" pictorial rhetoric is stretched paper thin to cover a paucity of formal skills. (Ah, to be young, overrated and in the Big Apple...
...years, he had been recommended for promotion to commodore. Although a civilian pilot was advising Kelly during the harbor entry, the skipper declared, "I am totally responsible for what happened." A Navy investigation will determine whether Kelly's new broad stripe was lost in the mud, along with the proud ship's dignity...