Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Known as the "Blue Lupine Queen," Miss Myrick can challenge the "Kudzu Kid" any time. Blue Lupine, incidentally, is a nitrogen-bearing plant used extensively for winter cover crops in the South ... It stops erosion, and adds millions to the income of Georgia farmers...
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...German policeman were making the rounds checking boundary markers near Rottenbach, a small village on the border between the Soviet and U.S. zones of Germany. They were fired upon from behind by Russians who had penetrated some 250 yards into the American zone. The U.S. patrol took cover until Lieut. William Linderose, commander of their squadron, reached the scene. The Russians fired again. Lieut. Linderose shot back three times. The Russians retired, leaving behind the dead body of a young comrade...
...Americans could see the Russians in firing position across the border, and decided to leave the dead soldier where he lay. Next morning the body was gone, presumably carried off by the Russians under cover of darkness. The U.S. Army protested the border violation but by week's end no reply had been received from the Russians...
Caught Short. The poor harvest carried a few windfalls of good fortune. Last week, as feckless "shorts" ran to cover their bets in the grain markets, the price of wheat futures rose to the highest they had been in five months. At their peak of $2.06, December futures were 10? a bushel higher than a month ago. Millers and bakers, who had been taking their own good time about buying supplies, expecting to get bargain prices, decided to do their buying now-before prices got any higher...