Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow is currently waging a loud propaganda campaign designed to demonstrate that the U.S. and Britain endanger the world's peace by maintaining excessively large numbers of troops on foreign soil. Moscow did not mention the fact that Russia still has more soldiers abroad than the U.S. and Britain put together...
...countries" to U.N.'s General Assembly (scheduled to meet Oct. 23). Gromyko had made the same request in the Security Council last month. The Council had defeated the motion because of U.S. and British opposition; the U.S. had insisted that all foreign troops, including those on former enemy soil (where the Russians have most of their forces) be discussed...
...people are gloomier, professionally and perennially, than the men who run the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Guests at Princeton's Bicentennial Conference on Engineering and Human Affairs last week heard a habitual prophet of doom: Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, 65, chief U.S. conservationist. In his best doomsday voice Dr. Bennett talked about soil and its abuse. Every decade, he said, there are 200,000,000 more people in the world and less soil from which to feed them. A vast acreage is being ruined each year. Something must be done for the soil...
...something has already been done, and Dr. Bennett did it. Soon after he joined the Department of Agriculture as a young chemist in 1903, he was sent to Louisa County, Virginia, to see why its soil was so poor. His shocking discovery: the soil was not just poor; most of it was gone, washed down roaring gullies or spirited away by stealthy "sheet erosion." And it was not only the backward South that was threatened with soil destruction. U.S. farmers everywhere, ignoring erosion by water and wind and over-cropping, were squandering the nation's most vital asset...
...Liberals, Socialists and leftist republicans were sullen but resigned. Communists, who were already fighting in the north, were verbally ferocious, but nonviolent. The Government charged that Communist-led guerrillas in the north were being armed from Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and that foreign military units were operating on Greek soil. Premier Tsaldaris called it war. The British said they would intervene only at the Government's request -but they shipped in more troops from Egypt and Palestine...