Word: mudding
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Running on a wet course, the varsity cross-country squad defeated slightly-favored Cornell in its opening meet on Saturday, 26-29. Harvard times were slow in the mud at Ithaca, and Captain Hamlin called the outcome "a victory without distinction...
Item, A Title: Usually a "catchy" drinking-hall phrase like Mud-in-your-eye, or Here's-looking-at-you-keed, or Wotcher...
Sallal found it easy to switch his conspiracy from father to son. The new Imam had ruled for scarcely eight days when, one night last week, he found himself a prisoner in his own mud-brick palace in the capital city of San'a. The Imam tried to shoot his way out but Sallal blasted the palace with artillery, and luckless Badr died in the ruins. At midnight, Radio San'a announced the fall of the monarchy and "the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic...
...they need short primers with fewer words, more drama and humor. The books-Fun with David, Play with Jimmy, Laugh with Larry-do not improve on the much criticized run-Spot-run style of older primers. But now most of the faces are brown,"kitty" replaces "pony," David makes mud pies on the front stoop, Mother hangs the wash on the clothesline, and a friendly white kid named Larry comes to visit with a rope-leashed pup named Wiggles. To be tested in twelve Detroit schools that are 50% or more Negro, the books shun explicit details of the ugly...
...expected. Wailed the village mullah of Danesfahan, where 3,200 of 4,500 inhabitants perished: "We have brought this evil on ourselves. It is God's vengeance for our sins." But the real evil, experts decided, lies in the peasants' age-old technique of building thick-walled, mud-brick houses that instantly collapse on their occupants in an earthquake. After his inspection, the Shah announced plans to rebuild the nation's 50.000 mud-hut villages.* It will take at least 15 years-if new earthquakes do not hasten the task...