The opening clip of "The Vietnam War" shows a marine, lying in mud, raising a helmet on the end of his rifle, to check for snipers.
Parent birds accepted situation, lined basket with mud, raised young.
The Dutch rider Lars Boom, his face camouflaged by mud, raising his hands in grim triumph.
Let us assume, for a moment, that Mr Pistorius's testimony - his version of events - is gospel truth, and that, despite flinging plenty of mud at his character and raising a few niggling questions about the forensics, the prosecution cannot fundamentally prove otherwise over the course of the next few weeks in court… Then what?
Until additional help is available, she is protecting her children the only way she knows how: by squatting in the dirt and shaping the soil with her fingers, raising a new mud wall from the ground.
The following morning, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire".
But some who are following the efforts have begun to express skepticism about the hope and money going into dredging mud and raising steel.
Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is used in water-based mud to raise its pH; to solve lignite, lignosulfonate, and tannin substances; to counteract corrosion; and to neutralize hydrogen sulfide.
Ryan's always doing stupidly nice things like running through mud to raise money for charity or helping to build schools in South Africa.
A submerged gravel pump then sucks up the slurry of mud and water and raises it to a series of sluice boxes, or palongs, which slope downward and have baffles placed at intervals along their length.
