Word: muleback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frye travelled through Southern Persia on muleback, going on hunch and making inquires all the way. Droughts and blinding dust storms slowed his passage...
...Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding to the mosque by muleback, made the trip more comfortably in a blue seven-passenger Buick, 1941 model...
Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...
...glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region once claimed by neighboring Peru. Ten years ago, Shell tackled the job by airplane and muleback, spent an amount unofficially estimated at $100,000,000, blueprinted a $35,000,000 pipeline, built highways and a village (Shell Mera...
...smoothly when the announcement came: there would be a special added attraction. As the 1,100 spectators watched, a goose was hung by the feet from the gibbet. It hung limp, its wings free, its long, greased neck dangling. Out onto the track rode four gentlemen riders on muleback, dressed in breeches, boots and gaily colored shirts...