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...finally out, another danger looms. Within the month, winter rains are expected. This year they will descend on barren, burned-over hillsides and dry creek beds with no vegetation to slow the flow of the water. Homes that escaped the fires may yet succumb to the floods and mud slides that are as regular a feature of winter in Southern California as the fires of autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Winds of Autumn | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...shrieking, horses whinnying and bodies falling, but only after the last shot is fired does Kurosawa cut to the battlefield itself. Then he gives us, in slow motion with hollow trumpets ironically restating the victory theme, horses writhing, kicking the air; men, doused in blood collapsing into the mud, twitching; young, white, pasty faces...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: By Indirection | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

...wasn't exactly a tailgate party, but the Harvard rugby football club thoroughly enjoyed itself in Saturday morning's 24-0 victory over Yale amidst the wind and mud at Soldiers Field...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Ruggers Shut Out Yale to Finish Perfect Season | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...Mike Durgin won't mind one bit chewing mud and spitting it out this afternoon, because he believes. The rest of the line has managed to make believers out of detached observers, but most fans will be watching and cheering the halfback or the quarterback today when the Crimson scores. Mike Durgin will just pull himself off the turf and smile to himself.CrimsonNevin I. ShalitSenior tackle MIKE DURGIN [74] leads the blocking for halfback PAUL CONNORS [25] earlier this year...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Big Mike Durgin | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...White tallied the only goal of the entire soccer event (Kirkland won by default and Lowell battled Jonathan Edwards to a scoreless deadlock in the other games) to power Quincy over Davenport-Pierce, 1-0, in the battle of champions. The Q-women dragged coach Dave Jackson through the mud to celebrate the triumph...

Author: By William A. Danoff and Mark H. Doctoroff, S | Title: Quincy Blasts Yalies, 20-6, Takes Tackle Crown | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

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