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“Some Luck” explores many more characters and a far longer stretch of time — hence its structure, tidy as a well-planted cornfield, one chapter devoted to each year from 1920 to 1953.

From Washington Post

It was seen that he had been wise, in the weeks when he alone was on the stump, to get well-planted the broad bases and main points of his positive program.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a well-planted leak to West German Ambassador Hans Kroll last week, Khrushchev tentatively offered the West a set of modified proposals to end the crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Saratov, blazing fiercely from the effects of a well-planted shell, had drawn out of line, the better to deal with her trouble.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan

There can be no question that a well-planted ‘P.S.’ is of great utility in clinching an argument raised in the main portion of a communication.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport