Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to U.S. soil came pictures of American graves in French North Africa: barren crosses in endlessly shifting sand, marking the bodies of boys who did not want to die in vain. And from North Africa also came the peculiar shifting tides of political forces bigger than any man, forming patterns whose size was a frightening reminder that human events sometimes move faster than the human spirit can follow...
...suburbs of Ottawa, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands awaited the birth of her third child. If the child should be a boy, he might some day rule The Netherlands, but birth on British soil might make him technically a Briton, would complicate matters. Therefore to smooth the path of the Dutch succession, the Dominion Government last week decreed that during the hours of childbirth (expected this month) Canada will grant extraterritorial rights to the birthplace and suspend all its sovereign claims to that part of the earth under the delivery room...
...World War II. As the battle of Africa unfolded, as the U.S. people learned the magnitude of the convoys and rubbed their eyes over the spy mission of tall Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, as they saw the first pictures of the American flag on African soil, they knew that at last, after a year of humiliation, they were active and aggressive participants at Armageddon. In the tank and plane factories, in the ammunition plants and the shipyards, there was good reason to work harder than ever...
Soviet Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary as it did its first-with enemy armies deeply entrenched in Russian soil. But in a sober speech honoring the anniversary last week, grim-faced Joseph Stalin voiced his faith in victory. Said...
...Andy believed that what Georgia's hut-dwelling, soil-scratching, God-fearing mountain folk needed most was someone to teach them how to live and farm better. He bought more land, put up neat, comfortable farmhouses, let each family farm 40 acres with teachers to show them how. In classroom sessions that are more like town meetings than classes, the men talk about soil, animals and crops, the women discuss better housekeeping. Children spend part of their day in school, part learning chores. As payment for instruction, house and land, each family returns part of its produce...