mud-floored

Somehow, in the light of what was to come, this mud-floored thatched hut seemed like the ultimate in comfort and convenience.

Huge cauldrons of water boiled in one corner over an open fire, casting a red-orange glow about the dim mud-floored room.

Pilots and mechanics lived in mud-floored tents in a flooded coconut plantation called "Mosquito Grove."

They looked at Palmer Deep, a mud-floored basin in the Weddell Sea located 120 kilometres (75 miles) from the edge of the continental shelf.

People come out of their one-room, mud-floored homes and show the skin lesions on the palms of their hands and soles of their feet.

IT'S EARLY afternoon and the heat of the day hangs heavy in Rafiq's humble mud-floored shop.

Violent Land Conflicts "In 1991 it is virtually certain that there are going to be more occupations," Mr. Maschio said in his mud-floored cabin here.

Neighbors crowded around the cardboard box containing a color television, one of dozens recently distributed in this community of mud-floored huts 25 miles from the bustling city of Chennai.

In the town of Nanyang, a few minutes drive from Guiyu, a middle-aged couple from the inland province of Hunan sorts wiring in a mud-floored shack.

There in that mud-floored wattle hut, with the silk-robed priest on the mahogany block, and the dark-skinned chief crouching in his tiger-hides, was laid the foundations of empire.

The Rusevs and their other children live in a dilapidated, mud-floored house outside the remote Bulgarian town of Nikolaevo, 280 kilometers (175 miles) east of the capital, Sofia.

I just didn't have enough money to feed her," Ruseva said speaking on TV, which showed pictures of her and her family outside her mud-floored village home outside the town.

To gather the women's stories, Jackson, 57, visited hospitals, sat in mud-floored huts and churches, putting names and faces and grief on camera until the viewer is moved to feel, turn away, do something.

Crouched in the mud-floored pit occupying what had once been Celeste's public square, Jaime Graham lifted his eyes to the eastern sky, beyond the ragged, flash-melted stubble marking the former site of Roland Towers.

Maduro launches his formal campaign on Tuesday with a caravan from Chavez's home town in the central plains to the presidential palace, mirroring the former soldier's ascent from childhood in a mud-floored hut to a global leader of the left.

Walk through a Mayan village and you may be invited into a one-roomed, mud-floored house of pole-and-thatch construction in which the few sticks of furniture have been pushed against the floor and the hammock (for sleeping only) has been hung close to the ceiling.

Thrusting her into the spotlight during the campaign, Maduro has recounted her life story growing up in a mud-floored home in rural Cojedes state, and then the poor "barrio" of Catia in western Caracas, before going on to give her services to Chavez's self-styled revolution.