Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colossal ambitions consumed this small, wiry man with coal-black, cruel eyes and thin mustache. The prewar Government, he said, was corrupt and weak-stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
...family alive. He planted a herring with his crops because the Indians did-and it seemed to help them grow. But it never occurred to him that his oxen's manure would make better fertilizer. He refused to use a metal plow because he thought iron poisoned the soil...
Lanky Lieut. General Mark Clark of the British-American Fifth Army rode his familiar jeep up to the front again. The Italian autumn rains had eased a bit. The spongy volcanic soil of the Volturno meadows firmed rapidly; it was possible now to drive off the roads. From a forward post the General peered across a calm, river-and ditch-ribbed valley to the German positions...
Most important in Kipling's later stories and poems is Kipling's "vision of the people of the soil. It is not a Christian vision, but it is at least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling...
...wintry Volga, when the action turns against the Germans, do not look like a turn in the tide of world history: they look like a pack of freezing immigrants. When whole fields of guns go off, the spasm of trees, the twitching of grasses, the shuddering of the soil indicate war's vast violation of nature...