Word: loam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light blue sedan, husky William Gehring, 46, was moseying along the sand-rutted roads of northwestern Indiana. The air had a sharp but pleasant smell. Farmer Gehring sniffed it with proprietorial fondness, watched an echelon of his big tractors cut across the black muck and sandy loam. Trucks, loaded high with sweet-smelling green leaves, carried them to workers who dumped them into giant vats, then jumped up & down on them...
Under the wet Indiana sky last week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
...balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine the first clochards (hoboes) of the season had taken their places to watch the tugboats pull rows of laden barges upstream and to wonder again why anybody should be fool enough to work in such weather...
...German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...
...usually-calm, blue eyes would blaze indignantly, though, if anybody tried to tell him how much sawdust was needed to best cushion the loam in the jumping and vaulting pits. He knew how much was needed, and for years he had charge of the pole vaulting pit at the big indoor invitational track meets in Boston Garden. He remembers every detail of Dutch Wamerdam's record-breaking hoist of 15 feet, 7 1/4 inches...