Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers seek no special dispensations, but they must have the opportunity to farm efficiently without exploiting their soil, and at a fair remuneration," it was stated yesterday in a recommendation to Governor Leverett E. Saltonstall '14, President of the Board of Overseers, by the Subcommittee on Agricultural industry of the Massachusetts Committee on Post-War Readjustment...
...Against Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army, near Trier, enemy attacks pushed back one sharp wedge penetrating his "sacred soil." But by this week General Hodges had turned this local German success into futility: the Americans had thrust farther north and east at another point, stood only 18 miles from the Rhine...
...before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then he accepted the wholesale resignation of Premier Hubert Pierlot's cabinet-in-exile, started looking for a new government...
...fifth partition of Poland began last week-the partition of the soil. Throughout the liberated regions, the Lublin government confiscated all farms (except church lands) of more than 250 acres. Also seized were all lands belonging to the Polish Government in Exile, to German citizens, to Poles convicted in Lublin's courts of treason or assisting the Germans. Seizure of property belonging to the Catholic Church or to "religious communities" would be decided on later when a Sejm (parliament) was elected...
...hours, the two-ply Siegfried Line at Aachen was broken in five places. Even with inadequate forces, a well organized enemy should have been able to hold that strong position for at least two weeks. Western Germany had been successfully invaded for the first time since Napoleon.* The soil of the Rhineland, Germany's storied, sacred frontier, lay just beyond...