Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person is a sheer materialist, the bodies are properly cared for until they go back, inevitably, to the soil...
...farmers had learned a few new tricks during the bumper years: they had planted shelter belts of trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing machines during the war. A reasonable rain or snow would nail down the soil for the year, and save the wheat...
...Legal Mind. Among the 5,000 New York-Connecticut residents who would be evicted from their pleasant properties by the world capital were numerous lawyers, most of whom seemed busy last week hunting for a loophole. The whole idea of giving up U.S. soil for an international zone, they said hopefully, might be unconstitutional...
Last week-more than six months after the first atomic bomb exploded-the New Mexican soil which melted to greenish glass was still aboil with radioactivity. Fragments weighing only a fraction of an ounce caused a continuous roar when held near a Geiger-Muller counter, a gadget which clicks once when an ionizing particle passes through it. Ionizing particles zoomed out of the fragments so fast that the clicks they made as they passed through the counter could not be distinguished individually...
...Soil. The man for whom London and Washington were speaking was the symbol of another new Poland. This one too was antifascist, but democratic, willing to be Russia's friend but not its vassal. At 45, sturdy, strong-shouldered Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is unquestionably his country's most popular political leader. Barring a rigged election or sudden death, he and his peasant followers seemed likely to emerge from any fair test at the polls as Poland's No. 1 political faction...