Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sample: And know-who fell like dust on earth's soil, Whoever was fettered long ago, Will rise again past highest summits, Uplifted by bright wings of hope...
...workers of Idaho's rich Camas Prairie soil, four strapping young bucks from Indian reservations had the time, the money, and the inclination to go off on a hard-drinking tear every now & again although federal law prohibits sale of liquor to Indians. One night last October, roaring drunk, the four got caught up in the wheeze and clang of Idaho's legal machinery and almost mangled...
...gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. Rain drizzled down over the foothills of the Smokies. The mood carried into a big tent in Morristown, Tenn. (pop. 13,000), where members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, Local 1054, fidgeted...
...forget who started this war," concluded McCloy sternly. "Whether or not you gentlemen here are responsible personally for it, remember the war and all the misery that followed it-including your own-was born and bred in German soil and you must accept the responsibility...
While it might impose no new controls, the Brannan Plan would extend them to many more farmers. A lot of the controls were designed for the farmer's own good (soil conservation, sensible crop limitations, etc.), but any independent-minded farmer would have a harder time escaping them unless he wanted to sell all his produce at low, unprotected market prices. A wrong guess on a major crop could cost the Treasury millions more in subsidy checks; in this hazardous field, the Department of Agriculture's forecasting system had not distinguished itself in predicting the 1950 winter-wheat...