Word: mudding
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Except under the best of conditions, anyone traveling the $91 million highway will be roughing it. In winter, the road will be untenable without constant snow removal; in spring, it will be a morass of mud. Only in summer and fall will passage be relatively easy without four-wheel drive. Nor does the highway offer much in the way of roadside facilities. The Yukon government has established two maintenance posts at miles 41 and 123, and at mile 231 the privately owned Eagle Plains Hotel stands as a kind of halfway house. Other than two Indian villages, there...
...before you protest, Bok tells us, remember that you may be implicated in this evil, too. The message implicit in all this is that since you inevitably get a little dirt on your hands while walking through the garden, you might as well throw youself completely into the mud. Maybe so, President Bok, but do we have to wallow in it so much...
...discussion. Steelworkers, retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily. "We live in mud, we are treated like mud." Later, as quietly as they had assembled, the groups of a dozen or so members broke up and returned to their own impoverished lives...
...Princeton players benefited from mud cleats, which the Harvard squad lacked. "We all changed our cleats at the end of the first period," Thomas said...
...storm in the bathroom of her apartment in the Sun Valley development, where the clocks stopped at 6:15 p.m. sharp. "I leaned my back against the door and listened to the building tearing apart," said Martinez. "I thought that I was going to die. Things started flying, mud and water started coming under the bathroom door, and I could hear people screaming for help." Although Sun Valley was almost completely destroyed, she and Chastity Dawn escaped unscathed. Just a few hundred yards away, however, several people dining at two restaurants were killed...