Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crumbs Needed. It is easy to add to a soil the chemicals that plants need, but every farmer knows that this is not enough. The soil must also have a good "structure," i.e., its particles must cling together in crumblike "aggregates." Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud. Then as it dries, it develops a hard, dense crust that kills seedlings, resists tillage, and keeps needed water and air from penetrating the surface...
...Said Eccles: "I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability...
...combination of good form and easy friendliness. He certainly knows how to put things so that the cloth-capped worker will understand them, and has a gift for the happy phrase. Eccles on wage controls: "... I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability." Some of the older Tories look down their noses at Eccles as a brash publicity hunter. The truth is that he is a very good man whose reputation is likely to spread all over...
...Church's direct appeal from the pulpits for Demo-Christian votes may have hindered as well as helped, for while 99.6% of all Italians are Catholics, many cling to a stubborn anticlerical tradition in politics...
Eoina Nudelman is a Russian-born artist who makes a living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...