Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful of the climbers was Mario Puchoz, 36, whose friends called him "the Mule." In World War II Puchoz fought on the Russian front-but K-2 proved harsher still. On June 21 the Mule died of pneumonia, at 19,000 feet. He was buried near the grave of U.S. Geologist Arthur Gilkey. who was swept away by an avalanche during the 1953 U.S. assault...
Thirty-five years ago this month, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker bade Godspeed to a convoy of 63 Army trucks leaving Washington on a daring transcontinental trek to prove that the gasoline engine had really replaced the mule. With the motor train rode a young Army observer, Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the trucks crawled into San Francisco on Sept. 5, after 60 days and 6,000 breakdowns, the lieutenant was a confirmed advocate of an adequate, all-weather U.S. road system...
...destroy my reputation will never be able to take away my spirit of optimism, because I will always be a ray of sunshine, a creator of gladness and master of myself. I have been a successful champion wrestler because I'm brave as a lion, strong as a mule, tough as a pine knot and sharp as a razor." He added: "I have the gift...
...time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain. Even the newly dampened land would need more rain to insure the crops that were being so blithely planted this week. "But," the Amarillo Daily News reported, "the people are grinning like a mule eating cactus...