Word: mulch
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...blueblooded liberal Republican who probably wishes by now that he had not been appointed Park Commissioner, decreed that there would be no more singing. His interest, he explained, was in merely protecting the Washington Square grass. (There is some grass in the square, pushing its way up through a mulch of ice-cream wrappers, but there is none within a beer can's throw of the folk singers' fountain...
...solid with facts, the four regional editions of the Farm Journal dropped heavily into country mailboxes across the land. "Hold wool for higher prices," it briskly warned. "Finish selling wheat. Prices are at their peak." As always, the features were gingham-crisp; "New Pay-Offs with Plastic Mulch," "How to Sell Bulls for 30% More," and "Need Bees? Make a Bed for 'Em." The farmer's wife got a new recipe for Danish raspberry pie, and the farmer's daughter learned that if she had light brown hair she should use clear red or red-orange lipstick...
...Spaniards to smoldering. Before long she is exchanging sweet nadas with the very Iberian who has been spreading all the calumnies-a handsome, aristocratic, intelligent, artistic, musically talented blackguard of a bullfighter. He hates the U.S. because it is burying his country's fine old traditions under a mulch of Coca-Cola and $10 bills...
...grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow...
swampy ground....They used to get off their horses, without having said a word, and helplessly submerge themselves in each other's arms, while the sweat ran down their backs under their shirts...They stood swaying together with their booted feet deep in the mulch, holding each other, hot and mystified in this green gloom....After a while...they would mount the horses again. (page...