Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venezuelan Coast. At 1:30 a.m. an explosion bowled him out of bed. Photographer White's routine assignment, covering a routine inspection trip by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Frank Andrews, had turned into an eyewitness view of the first Axis shells to land on the soil of the Americas...
Meantime another old rebel, who some 40 years ago swore that he would never again set foot on U.S. soil, disregarded MacArthur's still-flying flag by setting foot in the Philippines. Old General Artemio Ricarte y Vibora drove proudly about Manila in a sleek limousine, with a spluttering escort of Jap motorcycle guards...
...little corner of made-in-Japan hell on Bataan Peninsula, Douglas MacArthur's American-Filipino Army clung grimly to the last U.S. soil on Luzon. The Jap charged and charged again. He was thrown back. Through the jungles he filtered by squads and smaller groups. Usually he came to an ugly end, but often he did plenty of damage before he died...
...stage, is economic it will give Ford Motors a return on its investment in its low-grade Lake Superior ore beds. And more than that, it may bring back some prosperity to Upper Michigan, now a desolate peninsula of worked-out copper mines, abandoned iron workings, ravished forests, poor soil...
...already bombed the city. Heavier raids are yet to come and Singapore is not ready for them. Its clammy soil is too wet for underground shelters, so, if raids get too bad, plans have been made to evacuate 200,000 Chinese and Malays to crudely built dormitory huts in the uninhabited wooded spaces of the island. For those who cannot be evacuated, there are some private concrete shelters and modern buildings, which can offer protection. For those who can find nothing better, there are the city's two-to 20-feet-deep concrete drainage ditches...