Word: mudding
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...prospectors of the gold-rush days, Colony's workers had thronged to Colorado in the past two years from all over the U.S. By the end of last week many of them were on the move again. Swiftly loading crates stuffed with trucks clothes and tools into their mud-streaked pickup trucks and vans, they headed in every direction...
...last of the maple sap. He pauses to bulldoze a passer-by out of the bottomless depths across from his house. The Browns have farmed these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads...
From an office in Montpelier, Ray Burke, the Vermont state highway dispatcher, is relaying news of mud and disaster to state road crews. "Mud is part of Vermont living," he says, "you try to organize your life around it. Pretty soon it dries out and then, pretty soon it comes again." On particularly bad nights, he gets out his guitar and sings something to cheer the boys up. The Vermont highway department is noted for its esprit de corps, and Burke's songs cover the traditional themes so comforting to men who must battle not only raging storms...
...word of thanks. But at the next year's town meeting, he heard the newcomer complain that the road had been widened too much. Ever since, the newcomer's road has been the last graded in summer, the last plowed in winter and left absolutely impassable in mud season. The road commissioner promises he will put a load of gravel on that mud - some...
...Downs by his gang of part owners. They have not been able to do enough for Cassaleria since last November, when he won the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot. "Cassaleria didn't seem to get ahold of the track," said Jockey Darrel McHargue...