Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...miserable Italians dared not light camp fires at night; some subsisted on raw mule meat. They took refuge as they went in churches and mosques, using them as makeshift forts. Neutral military observers said that if only Britain could send enough planes, the Italian Armies might be swept into the Adriatic before Rome could get set for a new offensive. Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General...
Part of that little is the work of William Carlos Williams. A Rutherford, N. J. baby specialist and poet, Williams in his best verse gives the simple objects of existence the glistening integrity of pebbles in a quick stream. In White Mule, three years ago, he trained his poet-doctor's eye on the ordinary living of a U. S. middle-class family, set down their record in noiseless, antiseptic prose. In the Money is a continuation of White Mule. It is also a broad advance on the naturalist front...
...country through which infantry, engineers and pack-mule armament had to make their way inch by soggy inch...
Dourif puts the blame for France's collapse directly on the generals and government officials, claiming that the country "was a victim of its own people, dishonored by the blindness and mule-headedness of its leaders...
...Donald Peddie '41, of Minnesota, will bring his twangy mid-Western accent to the gridiron this fall as head cheerleader for the football games. High point of his performance will be the ride aboard the Army mule, which the fans should gopher...