Word: mudding
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...week's end it seemed probable that a third carrier would be certified to the New York-Miami run, but who it might be was more than ever obscured by the mud...
Ewing and Donn believe that such cycles have already happened several times. They support their theory by citing cores of ocean-bottom mud that indicate warming of the Atlantic surface water about 11,000 years ago. This, they think, was when the last ice age lowered sea level so much that the Arctic Ocean, cut off from the Atlantic, froze over. The glaciers, then at maximum, began to retreat...
...result of the overnight industrialization of Sahagun, most of the population of 10,000 has moved out of mud huts and into modern, pastel-painted brick-and-stucco houses that flaunt gardens, picture windows, TV antennas. Good wages buy good food and good clothes for children to wear to good schools...
...dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
...Northern Rhodesia, on the broad lands between the Limpopo and Congo Rivers, more than half a million primitive Africans have found a new, fascinating way to kill time. Every night in their mud huts they listen to their kabulo ka kwa-bamakani (small piece of iron that catches words in air). Their radios are tuned to Lusaka's Central African Broadcasting Station, and their favorite show is a request program called Zimene Mwa Tifunsa (Those You Have Asked For). They also have their favorite record, Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whisky, a lachrymose ditty in hillbilly style...