Word: mudding
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...Rough mud walls proved to be covered with strange and intricate paintings almost too faint to be seen. Painted gods and goddesses emerged from lumps of clay, and scraps of charcoal-like material turned out to be the remnants of food that the ancient people ate, pieces from clothes they wore. By putting the pieces together, Mellaart reports in the latest journal of the British Institute of Archaeology, at Ankara, what he has learned about how people worked and played and worshiped at Çatal Hiiytik 80 centuries...
Whitten continues to vote against programs that would pull his district out of the mud, and the district continues to send him back to Washington. For in Whitten's district, only a few of the 59.1 per cent of the citizens who are Negroes can vote. And these are people whose poverty the government programs are designed to aid: their median income is $700 below the meager district-wide average...
...baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck - Perkins, in hip-high rubber waders slogged through the sludge, grabbed the mooselet around the rump and pulled it free. Next problem: How now to get Perkins out of the mud? Tooth-&-Claw. One rubber wading boot may still be mired on the shore of Watts Lake, testimony to the way that Marlin Perkins, 59, director of the St. Louis Zoo, gets into the act in each...
...coaches explain to alumni, Cornell is a better team than its record shows. The Big Red walked all over Harvard in the Stadium mud, gaining 13 first downs to the Crimson's three, but lost the game 16-0 on two bad centers on fourth-down punts and a long Harvard runback of an intercepted pass...
...laid 170 ft. deep in the Gulf of Mexico. By developing underground storage vaults, gas companies have also been able to keep up with heavy winter demand and prop up summer prices. In the marshy New Jersey meadows, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. is freezing thousands of yards of mud, scooping a hole out of the middle and filling it with gas chilled to -258° F. to liquefy...