Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower; in Baghdad he conferred with officials of the Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and Yugoslav missions. In Communist Yugoslavia he told interviewers: "It is our wish to see and perhaps apply Yugoslav experiences in Cuba"; in New Delhi he told the pro-Communist weekly Blitz: "We have on our soil a North American base. It is easy to shake off Batista and the landlords, but not American bases." In Ceylon he told newsmen: "Don't believe the American press." In Karachi, where he spent 55 minutes of a scheduled one-hour interview fulminating against "American agents...
...along with numerous other men I know who served in Japan or are still serving there, was thoroughly disgusted and shocked at the way American women and children conducted themselves on foreign soil. I have seen women practically naked running the streets half "shot" and fully "shot," have heard them use language that a 30-year sergeant would blush to hear...
...Mann's judgment, Knut Hamsun was a peasant's son who grew up in Norway's far north, wandered as a hobo through Illinois and the Dakotas of the '80s, and buried himself in a remote corner of Norway to write novels (Growth of the Soil, Pan, Hunger) of great depth and power. Then, old and full of honors, including the 1920 Nobel Prize, Knut Hamsun told his countrymen when the Nazis invaded Norway: "Throw away your rifles. The Germans are fighting for us, and now are crushing England's tyranny over...
Cause of the disaster, as in similar instances rarely but regularly reported in the U.S., was botulin-a deadly nerve poison secreted by a microbe (Clostridium botulinum), probably from soil. The germs produce botulin only under airless conditions, are hard to kill even by boiling. And since the beets were served cold, Mrs. Gruwell had not boiled them-which might have destroyed the poison...
...northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them. At long last, the state and federal governments have agreed to extinguish the great...