Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hollows. There was something terrible about the hollows, deep-bottomed with decaying leaves, smelling of dead water and dark leafage and insufferable heat. The sound of the horses' feet was like a confused heartbeat on the stood swaying together with their booted feet deep in the soft, mud, holding each other in the green gloom, the sweat running down their backs under the shirts. Presently they remounted and rode on. (page...
Meanwhile, the symbol of U.S. air power in France sits hub-deep in the mud, while the sheep baa contentedly along the runways of Merignac field...
...year-old daughter. She, in turn, tearfully pleaded that she had lost them. The sergeant in charge of the G.R.S. searchers had run into such situations before. He produced a dozen candy bars and the little Korean girl dug up the missing dog tags from a cranny of the mud-walled barn...
...soil the chemicals that plants need, but every farmer knows that this is not enough. The soil must also have a good "structure," i.e., its particles must cling together in crumblike "aggregates." Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud. Then as it dries, it develops a hard, dense crust that kills seedlings, resists tillage, and keeps needed water and air from penetrating the surface...
Clinging Threads. When Krilium is mixed with sticky mud, its long threadlike molecules cling to the bits of clay, binding them strongly together. The mud turns into a mass of spongy crumbs. It takes very little Krilium to do the trick. In some cases, .02% is enough to turn a problem soil into a tractable one. One treatment lasts for at least 2½ years (the age of the oldest test plots), probably much longer...