Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers have resisted him. Last summer Farmer Dennis had a poor wheat crop which he plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway...
...General's comment on his house-hunting problem: "Fundamentally," he explained with that famous grin which makes his eyes twinkle, "I'm a farmer boy. I want a place out of town where I can raise a few tomatoes and beans and get close to the soil." When he was asked whether he would be addressed as "President" or "General" after he assumed his duties at Columbia, he replied: "As long as I live, I shall answer most readily to the name...
...They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
...legend goes that Fisherman's Lake was created centuries ago when doves, tired by a long flight, sank down at evening and started to scratch the moist soil. They found water, and at last the lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
...foot which Young Henry put in the soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...