Word: mudding
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...struggling men's Harvard lacrosse team took a step in the right direction Saturday, only to land in the thick mud of the University of Delaware field, tagged with a 9-7 loss...
...Mud Club...
...mud frustrated the Crimson in its efforts to raise its scoring average, now hovering at 6.6. goals per game, well below last year's 9.5 mark. Freshman Chris Pujols (two goals on Saturday) and sophomore Rob Hawley (one goal) have been dangerous on the attack so far. But attackman Steve Bartentelder (even with two goals Saturday). first team All-Ivy last season, and a pair of All Ivy honorable mention midfielders. Steve Voelkel and Brendan Meagher, are behind last year's scoring pace...
...came-and came and came-in record torrents. The Mount Wilson Observatory, just east of Los Angeles, recorded six inches in twelve hours; in parts of Orange County to the south, one-half inch fell in only eight minutes. The downpours weakened dams, washed out roads, and unleashed murderous mud slides. Three-year-old John Price was crushed to death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep lake...
...into the cosmic consciousness," he wrote in an essay on life after death, comparing the process of dying to "the flow of a river into the ocean." Summoning the rhetorical powers of his youth, the elderly writer foresaw the end. The river, he wrote, "has been freed of the mud-that clung to it, and regained its transparency. It has become identified with the sea, spread over it, omnipresent, every drop catching a spark of the sun. The curtain has not fallen; it has been raised." Ironically, after a lifetime of earthly visions, it was that glowing picture...