Word: humus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...
...soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less natural but simpler suggestion would be to put up walls of canvas on the wire fence walls of the courts. This would be cheaper, even if it would require bracing the walls with a few guy wires or props. It would also eliminate the eye-confusing vistas...
...track and field, the hard core of any Olympics, the U.S. got off to an auspicious lead. High Jumper Charlie Dumas (rhymes with humus), a lanky young (19) Los Angeles Negro, slithered over the bar in a diving roll that seemed to repeal the law of gravity, set a new mark of 6 ft. 11% in. to win. He did not have to try to better his own world record...
...went off in tears muttering to himself: "I'm not an athlete . . . I'm not an athlete!" Olympic Qualifiers Vern Wilson of Santa Clara (Calif.) Y.C. and little Phil Reavis of Villanova dropped out as the bar rose. Only 19-year-old Charley Dumas (rhymes with humus) of Compton Junior Collie was left...
...spring, tractor-pulled applicators, straddling four rows at a time, inject seventy tons of anhydrous ammonia to the exact depth of 15 inches into the Eastland soil. Heavy plows bite deep into the Delta loam and turn under 150 tons of carefully prepared silage. Tons of cottonseed hulls provide humus for sections where the soil is heavy. This year, for the first time, several hundred acres of cotton will be irrigated by Eastland's own irrigation system, engineered by an Arkansas consultant...