Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
...Russians, have liked them even less since they divvied Poland up in 1939 with Russia's erstwhile ally Germany. For three weeks Ambassador Maisky and British officials labored in the interest of a united front against Hitler to make the Poles forget Russia's seizure of their soil and oppression of their people, not to mention Russia's continuing detention of 300,000 Polish prisoners of war in Russia...
That color changes with environment is strikingly illustrated by the varieties of U.S. horned toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...
Europe's new literary exiles - like Voltaire and Rousseau in 18th-Century Switzerland and Holland - now find in the U.S. a place to publish their works in their own languages. Since no new books are published in France of which the Nazis disapprove, the U.S. is the chief soil on which the French language sur vives as a free medium of expression...
...dropped in to see him with the manuscript of a new book, Tragédie en France. Of course Maurois could get it translated into English, but he would like also to publish it in the original. Then & there Crespin decided to start publishing books in French on U.S. soil...