Word: mudding
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...very closely acquainted with Walter Cronkite, and TIME'S cover portrait infuriated me. Walter Cronkite does not have mud-brown eyes. He has the most beautiful, clear, bright blue eyes I have ever seen. Also the bluest blue eyes...
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...khakis and mud-spattered boots scrambled up on a huge rock pile, and hammed it up for photographers. Then they clambered aboard a bulldozer, and posed some more. A few moments later, they were riding on the running board of a Ford truck, jouncing along dirt roads past mud and thatch huts, waving eagerly to bewildered peasants...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...pearlfish is impressive in numbers as well as appetite. Females begin spawning some three weeks after they are hatched; every week they produce from 30 to 300 eggs, which dry out and are preserved in the baked mud after floodwaters recede. The next year, when the plains are inundated again, the eggs hatch in as little as half an hour after they are moistened, producing a new generation of fish to sweep the waters clear of mosquito larvae...