Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...
...pretended that they were studying local plants and animals. Actually, they were estimating the biological effects of the atomic explosion. They collected over 600 different kinds of plants. They trapped a variety of animals and examined them for radioactivity and possible organic changes. They measured the radioactivity of the soil over a wide region...
...Bellamy and Larson are still cautious. Radioactive dust, they say, was blown high in the air by the explosion. Carried by the wind, it settled back to earth in a northeasterly area ten miles wide and 100 miles long. In parts of this area, the soil is detectably radioactive as far as six inches down, and the depth of penetration is slowly increasing...
...folk music is the good earth from which much great music springs, the U.S. has a rich subsoil. But little has been cultivated outside the jazz patch, and the U.S. opera crop has been especially sparse. Last week a foreign-born U.S. composer proclaimed that the soil was ready to bear, if only U.S. composers would work it. He offered a piece of his own produce to prove his point...
Last week beefy Bill Richards stood in the midst of his 1,000,000 heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...