Word: soiling
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...Louisiana soil and what is beneath it have been good to me," said Pennington, who was born and reared in the state and made his fortune in a 40-year career of wildcatting for oil, natural gas and mineral deposits...
...They don't want to soil their hands with it," he said. "They are keeping their distance from it like sending a bomb". The Stanford Dialy
Father (Peter Michael Goetz) has the wheyfaced fatigue and resigned gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...
Once the mountainsides are denuded, erosion begins. The land can no longer hold water. Soil fertility drops without the replenishing nutrients from trees. Rivers swing from one seasonal extreme to another, sending flood waters surging off the mountains in the rainy season and causing long periods of drought in summer. The torrents may be accompanied by landslides. More subtle damage comes from silting. As rivers wash debris into the clear coastal waters, the particles reduce the transparency of the sea, cut down sunlight and kill off coral reefs and valuable coastal sea grasses, on which much marine life depends...