Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to Popayan, the abductors of President Lopez abruptly turned around, rattled back through Pasto, turned off on a mule trail. They had heard that the Popayan soldiers were loyal. At 5 p.m. the party stopped for the night at the hacienda of a couple of old-line, embarrassed Conservatives. Liberal President Lopez and son were agreeably entertained...
...gobbled up most of her railways. Now her unreplenished fleet of motor trucks, 15,000 strong two years ago, had worn down to a wheezy 5,000 machines, and many of these were idle for lack of spare parts. More than ever, China traveled and hauled by foot, mule and human carrier. More than ever, the lack of mobility hobbled her armies, sharpened the peril of famine, loosened the bonds of central government...
...York Timesman. Milton Bracker, who visited the hospital last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along...
...night every night for over a week, loaded planes left India at few-minute intervals, Burma bound. During the entire operation not a ship was lost, not a passenger or mule scratched, not a pound of supplies damaged. The late Major General Wingate, commanding the ground forces transported, stated "that it was the most incredibly successful enterprise in the history of airborne operations...
...other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...