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...Arabs behind him, was fast off the mark with a four-point proposal of penalties, ranging from the withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Bonn to a complete trade boycott of West Germany. "If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!" he cried...
...tribal capital of Serowe in 1956, there was much prejudice to overcome. Being white, Ruth was suspect. Moreover, a set of twins, born two years later, seemed to spell disaster to Bamangwato witch doctors. But Ruth-often wearing a silk blouse and tight white pants-moved through the mud-hut villages dispensing good will, wiping blood from injured herdsmen with a lace handkerchief, and fighting for seven years to build a clinic. Eventually she became known as Mwa Rona (Our Mother), and the antiwhite fears of the tribesmen faded...
...visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front all day to the night folk who appear in her back room after hours. First, there is Howard again, hideously scarred. Then her dream lover materializes. He looks more like a floorwalker than a night walker, but he whisks her off to a ghoulish...
...Korea to see how they've rearranged the mud," he told the soldiers, sounding like the veteran he is. "If you wonder why I keep coming back to Korea, I have the same travel agent you have." Then, trying one based on his vague resemblance to the Secretary of Defense, he added: "Everywhere we go we get a big reception. Thousands are waiting to cheer. They think I'm Secretary McNamara with shutdown orders...
Huddled Pueblo. During most of its existence, from 6500 to 5700 B. C.- dates determined by carbon 14 dating -the city must have looked like an Indian pueblo of the U.S. Southwest, its mud-brick buildings huddled together in a single mass. They had the same doorless outside walls, and were entered by ladders through their flat roofs. There were no streets, and only a few small courtyards. Çatal Hiiyuk may have been well-designed for defense, but its comfort was questionable and its sanitation offensive...