Word: layering
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...Fannin County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...Italian ships caught in Jap harbors and seas. (Probably fewer than 30 were in Far Eastern waters and, by Jap reports, the Italians must have tried to scuttle them all. In Shanghai, the liner Conte Verde and the mine layer Lepanto were successfully sunk; Domei admitted that the Italians had damaged seven warships and twelve merchant ships...
...them the hormone did not work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists do not expect...
...their rear. From Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel Island, east of Vella Lavella, the Japs evacuated a long-held seaplane base-the third position they had abandoned in less than a month.* Though the heart of Japan's defense was still untouched and intact, the fatty outer layer was shrinking...
...pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any part of Hollywood"); 3) turned up as a blue-ribbon cook whose apple pies and chocolate layer cakes had won top prizes at the Michigan and North Carolina State fairs...