Word: mudding
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...affluent West, that might appear unremarkable; in China it is a veritable cornucopia of consumerism. Every family in the brigade possesses an alarm clock, 90% of the families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with the 28 years before, when only seven such houses were constructed. "All the peasants feel happy," says Chen Quanchun, 37, the brigade's leader. "They work twice as hard as they used to because they know that if they work harder, they can make...
...piranhas were raised on the Stockman spread, but the farm comes into view: "The inflation premium melts away like the morning mist"; "all conventional estimates just wind up as mud"; "if there's a consensus, he [Reagan] is not going to buck...
BETWEEN 1:45 and 4 p.m. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the pounding and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff forkids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable...
...California Senate race. Like the incumbent, Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, the former talk-show host is pro-choice on abortion. Maureen also has an instinct for the political jugular. As she once declared during her father's presidential drive: "We will certainly be able to sling the mud, to kick below the belt, to trip, to scratch if we have...
...children on how apples were stored for winter during the 1800s. Meanwhile, in the classroom's kitchen area, several children are busy making two apple pies. Other children simply wander about the room or work alone. One girl, busy with her phonics workbook, is stuck on the word mud. She can sound out m, u and d;she cannot seem to link the sounds together...