Word: humus
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...urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...
...Humus Chap. Geoffrey Cantuar, as he officially signs himself according to ancient custom, is a natural-born conservative-with a small c, since archbishops are not supposed to have politics in public. One day he entered the House of Lords to find an advocate of artificial fertilizer debating a supporter of humus. "I have not the slightest knowledge of the subject," he later admitted, "but instinctively I support the humus fellow against the artificial-fertilizer chap...
...addressed. De Gasperi himself took the stand to repudiate the forgery and to declare: "It is dangerous to allow the birth and diffusion of legends which tend to portray the political men who opposed Fascism as petty politicians without scruple or love of country. Hitlerism was born in the humus of such legends...
...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...
...virgin soil under a long-established forest is not always good. Often it is "podzolic"; i.e., it has a top layer (called the "A-horizon") that is rich in humus. Below it is a "B-horizon" from which nearly all plant food has been leached by water percolating from the surface...