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Across the U.S. last week, televiewers gawked curiously at the unfamiliar faces�balding salesmen, pert secretaries, scrubbed junior executives�telling about "Veet Nom," "Cheeze Juftif Warren," "cloddy skies" and "mosterly easterly winds."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sun.—The glorious sun stays in his course, and plays the alchemist, turning with the splendor of his precious eyes the meagre, cloddy earth to glittering gold.—Shakespeare.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

The following terms are used in describing soil textures: Coarse, fine, open, close, loose, hard, stiff, compact, soft, mellow, porous, leachy, retentive, cloddy, lumpy, light, heavy.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon

When you plough corn land, plough well and in good weather, lest you turn a cloddy furrow.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

Young cotton plants do not grow well in cloddy ground.

From How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory by Alford, G. H.