Word: mudding
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...tweeds, with a pipe and a diamond stud, and a diamond twice as large in a ring he wore. I said, "Sir Henri, this must be a God-awful experience for you, stranded in the Winkler County desert." His reply: "Compared with traveling in Mesopotamia on a camel with mud up to its arse, this is a boulevard...
...Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws of the jungle tribes...
...upper parts of the village have disappeared, but the parts covered by the water and mud are almost perfectly preserved. More than 5,000,000 artifacts and fragments have been recovered as evidence of Biskupin's flourishing culture in 550 B.C. Life for the 1,200 or so villagers may have been crude by Greece's golden standards, but it was complete and well organized. The village's regular streets and identical houses must have been laid down as deliberately as any modern Levittown. Each house has the same plan, with an outer vestibule for cattle, pigs...
Circle & Cross. As Dr. Rajewski and his crews sifted the mud, they discovered what the people ate, wore and worshiped. They raised wheat, barley and other crops, which they cultivated with small plows. The women wove cloth out of wool and flax, sewed with bronze needles...
...Fugitive Kind. A high-priced cast pat includes Marlon Brando, Anna Magriani, Victor Tory and Joanne Woodward turns Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending into a Mississippi bayou, now and then happens on islands of poetry in sea of mud...