Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful?" grinned Lester Pfister. He raced on to another field, wiggled his wiry 126 lbs. through a barbed-wire fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when you can sit on the ground before 10 a.m. and not get your butt cold...
...some concentrated worrying about conservation. Colorado rangers of the U. S. Forest Service fought a strong push by Western sheep ranchers to graze their flocks without restriction on public lands. The sheep-men were lobbying hard and effectively in Congress. All the same time in Washington, a group of soil experts, engineers, and other conservationists met in what they called the National Emergency Conference on Resources. No Congressmen bothered to show...
Graton works in hot ground. His fellow Department member, Professor Kirk Bryan, is an expert in cold ground. Bryan is doing research in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska, which presents problems to men building things like the Alcan highway...
...heavy, sweet flavor of pisco moscatel (distilled from muscatel wine) is for the unsophisticated drinker. The young blade disappointed in love seeks forgetfulness in eight or ten straight shots of cherry-flavored pisco. The pisco connoisseur drinks the high-powered Moquegua, distilled from the grapes of the dry, sandy soil of southern Peru...
...midnight, the shaft was down 41 feet; by 4 a.m., down 65 feet. Then the drilling stopped; the shaking of the drill might cave in the sandy California soil in the bigger pit. As dawn broke hot and clear over the San Gabriel Mountains, the snorting, clangorous power shovels had dug a pit 57 feet deep. "Whitey" Blickensderfer, 43, an unemployed ex-sandhog, was lowered into the crater with a partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window...