Word: peated
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...Perhaps the bank of a prehistoric river caved in on it. It sank down into the cold, Pleistocene mud, which kept out the air and preserved the body. With the coming of winter, the mammoth was frozen solid; the river kept on dropping silt. Moss and peat kept the body insulated...
...Agnes was put to work in a lime kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...
...production schedules and Burgomaster Witschey's civic improvement plans are regarded as encouraging in Nijverdal. But "Marshall help" means something more personal than that. A slippered housewife made the point succinctly. "From 1931 to 1936," she said, "there wasn't much work at the mill. Jan dug peat. Almost the whole town dug peat. If Jan loses his job again, I don't think we would get over...
...leaders felt the same way. "Before help came last spring," said Cornelius Kalkhoven, company representative of the Christian National Federation of Trade Unions, "you could feel the tension through your wooden shoes." Said the Catholic union's young Hendrik Grondman: "Our men will never go back to the peat bogs...
Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...