61.   For many missionaries, the attraction was ground fertile for the spreading of a gospel of piety, reform and service.

62.   From deliberate beginnings, it roared through the fertile ground of careless journalism, where laziness can do the same work as malice.

63.   Growing uncertainty and distress among the middle class provided fertile ground for demagogues who sought to make the poor a scapegoat for a multitude of ills.

64.   His wayward spirit discovered its most fertile ground then, and if he ever returned to writing narrative verse, we have no trace of it yet.

65.   HIV may be especially fertile ground for such concerns, being infectious, potentially fatal, and linked to activities that carry heavy social baggage.

66.   Hip-hop is always fertile ground for creative babbling, and this year it turned the radio into a veritable playpen.

67.   How the fortune leads to decades of scheming and revenge-taking among the heirs makes fertile ground for a film steeped in Italian history and peasant folklore.

68.   I want Off Broadway to be a more fertile ground for more innovative types of writing.

69.   Immigration is fertile ground for demagogues.

70.   In Madison, the Berkeley of the Midwest and fertile ground for Nader, Democrats and Greens are at war.