Gerald Ford became the 38th president of the United States following Richard Nixon's resignation, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. Synopsis Gerald Ford was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. A star college football player, he served in the Navy during WWII. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1948, Ford represented Michigan's 5th District for nearly 25 years before suddenly finding himself at the crossroads of history.
Definition of fertile. 1  1a : producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive fertile fields of corn and oatsb : characterized by great resourcefulness of thought or imagination : inventive a fertile mindc obsolete : plentiful.
The word fertile means able to reproduce, but like so many words, that's just the beginning. The fact that she gave birth to eight kids was proof that she was fertile; her fertile imagination explained their unusual names. The distance between fertile's literal meaning (able to make babies) and its figurative ones (productive, prolific, full of potential) is small. A child's mind is a fertile place; an idea can grow there very easily. Rabbits are famously fertile creatures; they can spawn several generations in a matter of months. And fertile ground can be arable land or a situation that provides the perfect opportunity.