Word: mule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese battalion has a special company of porters whose job it is to make sure the fighting men have ample ammunition and food. The Indians must rely on units from their unwieldy Army Service Corps, who were never trained to operate at heights of 14,000 feet and over mule paths. In addition to bulldozers and four-wheel-drive trucks, the Indians need mechanical saws that can match the speed of those the Chinese use to cut roads through forests...
Mississippi-born Robert Ernest Milner had scarcely learned to read when he decided there must be more to life than following a mule along the rows of a piney woods cotton farm. At seven, young Milner-dubbed "Dumas" by his family because he tagged after a hired hand by that name-signed up to sell an elixir called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped...
...that he had lived in that town for 35 years. The only voices belonged to the townspeople-talking about the practice of country law, about their debt to God, or about the colored people: "I like a nigger-if he knows he's a nigger. I like my mule, but when he forgets he's a mule, I don't like him any more." The South's race trouble emerged in its true perspective, as a vital but not all-consuming fact of Southern life...
...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...
...first game tonight, it will be Clarkson's solidity against the flashy brilliance of Colby. It seems unlikely that 100-point man Rou Ryan can score enough to match the output of the well-balanced Clarkson six, and the Mule defense is erratic...