Word: mudding
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...just as harsh. "The thing is so disproportionate as to be nonsensical," editorialized the Wall Street Journal. "What person, except perhaps the very young themselves, can really believe that an Africa aflame with violence will have its fires quenched because some Harvard boy or Vassar girl lives in a mud hut and speaks Swahili...
...Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes from beating one another up, but prohibit fraternizing between the teams. He must make split-second decisions with confident finality, and he must...
...tuberculous husband racked by coughing and wasting away, called in a curandero (healer), who prescribed donkey milk. A wife who had fallen into a deep, psychotic depression was made to lie on a dirt floor while the curandero outlined her body with a knife; then she drank the mud made with dirt collected from the knife. A child with bone cancer was sentenced to early death because his parents refused a doctor's recommendation for amputation, relied instead on native herbs...
...Blood & Mud. Major Masters led his disciplined Gurkhas of the 111th Indian Infantry Brigade on slashing raids against the Japanese and on harrowing night marches. Then he learned what war was really like: he was ordered to make a stand at a point code-named Blackpool. Outnumbered and outgunned. Masters' men were slowly driven back. "I wanted to cry," he writes, "but dared not, could only mutter 'Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly...
...Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...