Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascism is not compatible with human dignity. The world must be freed from it. German soil, too, must be cleared...
After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...
Rubble & Blossoms. By last week some 18,000 square miles of the Fatherland's "sacred soil" east of the Rhine had passed from German sovereignty for the first time in more than a century. Over a score of great cities flew Allied flags-and the little white flags of the conquered Reich...
Emil: A foul traitor purposely failed to destroy one bridge, as he had been ordered. The half-witted and stupid Americans came across that bridge, and in cowardly manner marched around and past our brave armies. ... In order to rid our holy soil of this vermin, we made a softer peace than our heroic victories warranted...
...farm problem was common as dirt. In fact, it was dirt. The three farms he bought were typical of millions of acres of once-rich U.S. land. They had been farmed recklessly, then rented to tenant farmers who put nothing, back into the land, and finally, as the top soil washed away, abandoned. Bromfield's grandfather had raised eight children on a 100-acre valley farm, and bought little more than spices, tea, salt and coffee. Bromfield's 640 acres, when he bought them, would not support a single family...