Word: muleback
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...armed truce that exists between mules and plowboys during the long cotton-growing season was broken for one day only. The jockeys rode bareback (or muleback as Deltans say) with the assistance of knees, heels, hands and profanity. What the mules lacked in speed they made up "for in mulishness. They balked, wheeled, vaulted over fences, ran countertrackwise. The crowd howled with delight and kept pulling at its corn...
...muleback trip from Buna or Lae to the base hospital at Port Moresby. But Army hospital planes made it in 45 minutes, evacuated 17,000 men during the recent campaign. Since their organization last December,* the Air Forces' Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadrons have moved in New Guinea and Tunisia, or lugged to the U.S. from the Southwest Pacific, Alaska, Africa or India, or shuttled around the U.S. 50,000 ill and wounded men. Only two deaths have occurred in flight. Creator of the system: the A.A.F.'s air surgeon, Brigadier General David N. W. Grant...
Driven from Crete by these losses was a fugitive from injustice, George II of Greece. The King was separated from his troops by parachutists in the first hours of fighting, but he eluded them, rode on muleback for two days across Crete's sharp spine, embarked for Alexandria in a British destroyer...
They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns and quarters. They built their barracks, from foundation to rooftop...
...Longhorns is Pancho Dobie's ninth book. Coronado's Children, though published in the Southwest, was a Literary Guild selection (1931) and he was called off a panther hunt to quaff Manhattan literary tea. In 1932-33, on a Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language...