Word: mulch
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Lobbyists labor under a presumption by the public that their craft generally thrives on the concealed mulch of bribes, kickbacks, favors and deals. Harvard, however, seems to have avoided such activities, and enjoyed almost a Boy Scout reputation among the Congressmen, lobbyists, and reporters contracted by The Crimson. Those asked whether Daly could be considered a lobbyist--of the clean sort, included under the 1946 umbrella definition as a person who accepts compensation which has the "purpose or intent to influence passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States"--answered as follows...
...Greenburgh, N.Y. The town is picking up the trees at curbside and running them through chipping machines, used the rest of the year to clean up after tree prunings on the town's property. The tiny chips can then be used as a compact landfill or as a mulch to prevent the spread of weeds in gardens...
...horse is the only animal that pays for its grazing by reseeding the area over which it grazes. Seed passing through the mustang's alimentary canal will sprout more quickly than otherwise is the case. Not only that, the humus forms a mulch that protects the sprouting seed until roots are sent deep enough into the soil for the new plant to live through the hot, dry period that follows the spring season...
...cartoonist's imagination, the ladies who belong to garden clubs are a Begonia Mafia who gather in print dresses and flowered hats to chatter about mulch and prettification. In some ways, of course, the ladies are responsible for their own image...
Blues, folk, country and western, ragas, psychedelic light and sound effects, swatches of Mahler, jazzlike improvisations-all are spaded into the mulch by such vital and imaginative groups as the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds and the new British trio, the Cream. Like the Beatles, most of these groups write their own music and thereby try not only to arrive at their own peculiar mixture of elements, but also to stamp their identity on whatever they...