Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the "new State" had made worldwide headlines, tactful Angers authorities unobtrusively explained that it had no dimensions, that their soil remains 100% French but that troops of the Polish Army, which General Sikorski is industriously recruiting in France and Britain among expatriate Poles, will be permitted to mount armed guard over the buildings leased to the Poles in Angers, and "it is expected they will feel and act like frontier guards...
...days later a detachment of Nazi soldiers came to the same border station and removed all the furniture from that part of the German customs house which stands on Dutch soil...
Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy...
...ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
...already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation," to get the soil of her primary defense areas ready to hold a flood. Water was kept within a few inches of the tops of canal banks. And martial law was declared throughout eight of The Netherlands' eleven provinces...