Word: mudding
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...major. Instead, Beatón killed the major. Out from Havana on the run hurried an alarmed Fidel with his army chief, Juan Almeida, and his Armed Forces Minister, Brother Raúl, at his side. Pelted by spring rains, they slogged last week through calf-deep red mud seeking out the new rebel...
...bright color with a palette knife, and finally glazes over most of the picture with more thin sheets of color. The results are physically as fragile, in all probability, as those of an earlier American romantic, Albert Pinkham Ryder. They look fragile, too, like reflections of rain clouds, seaweed, mud flats and ragged gardens in a misty mirror. In his wistful way, Kepes is pioneering in the cloudy abyss between abstraction and romantic nature-painting...
...maneuver three regiments, including Private Post and his outfit, onto a single cowpath over which a U.S. observation balloon served as a perfect marker for Spanish firepower. More than 400 men were killed or wounded at "Bloody Ford," and at one point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game is over and a mess of people are straggling across it, except that these men were on the run, yelling...
...from parades of painted elephants to torchlight processions. In the most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests warned of the dire consequences if the Reds returned to power with their plan to give half of the teaching posts in church schools to Communists. Both sides plastered mud walls with gory posters. Red posters showed rich Hindus sucking blood and money out of starving peasants. Their opponents splashed a gaudy re-creation of an incident last summer showing Communist cops shooting to death a pregnant fisherwoman...
...guests are thrilled by the throb of tribal drums in the gloaming. (Since natives were lacking on the 95 acres of grounds in the "white" highlands of Kenya, the club owners imported a band of Wakamba drummers from 200 miles away, installed them in a specially-built, rent-free, mud-and-thatch village, and placed stern instructions on the village bulletin board that drums must be throbbed daily at sundown...