Word: loam
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...Litvinoff remembered, is Russia's most beautiful month. In the south, the cherries and peaches ripen; the rich black loam of the Ukraine bakes from mud to dust; on the Central Front, around Moscow, the spongy forest land is thick with violets and lilies-of-the-valley, and the cuckoo and nightingale sing...
They were U.S. citizens who had spent their lives on U.S. soil -farmers who tilled the rich brown loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were...
...winter had been mild: days bright with sunshine, nights when snow fell gently on the waiting land. Now the soil was dry and good, ready to come to life with the first warm breezes. In the rich black loam of Lyon County, farmers al ready were sowing oats, a full three weeks early...
...those days the loam in the Genesee bottom lands was 18 feet thick, and the whole valley sprang with grass so rich that wild horses by hundreds roved in it invisibly. It was a stage where the conflicts of a nascent nation played themselves towards ultimate compromise, and it was peopled with some interesting characters...
...topsoil in Deaf Smith is dark, sandy loam; underneath is a bed of caliche, which is rich in calcium carbonate. Locally grown wheat has an unusually high protein content, and six times more phosphorus than standard flour. Deaf Smith milk has 30% more phosphorus than the accepted standards for milk; carrots, turnip greens, beans, lettuce and cabbage are also rich in the mineral. All these elements are essential for building bone and muscle...