Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will fight, foot for foot, the enemy's attempt to dash across our land and to reduce the amount of our soil violated by the invader...
When Kipling was singing the glories of Empire in India, Neville Chamberlain was painstakingly trying to raise sisal on the thin soil of Andros Island in the Bahamas, to recoup his family's fortunes. When his father, Old Joe Chamberlain, as Colonial Secretary, was working to bring the Boers to terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham and interesting himself in health work. The age of Victoria molded him into a typical Englishman of his time-not a Kipling Englishman, but a Galsworthy Soames Forsyte. Neville Chamberlain's mind was once described as "the type which...
...citizen who said he had seen a robin tugging at a worm in the ground. The worm stretched until it snapped out of the earth, knocked the robin cold. Wrote Dave James: "Faced by a committee of angleworm lovers, Carroll Kjellman ... admitted he planted strips of rubber in the soil. . . . 'I'm sorry I caused the robin to be knocked out . . .' Kjellman said...
...Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...
...near her frontiers (300,000 Italians were reported concentrated north of Fiume). Police uncovered an arsenal in a German cardboard factory. An Italian-Yugoslav commission investigated the death of one Italian soldier and the wounding of three others when Italian troops tried to disarm a Yugoslav sergeant on Yugoslav soil. The Italians said they thought the sergeant was in Italy...