Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American adviser with the Viet Nam 21st Ranger Battalion, told me that his men had come across about 25 new graves in a cemetery five miles east of Hué on March 14. From half a dozen of the graves the heads were sticking up out of the sandy soil and, according to Sharp, "there wasn't much left of them-buzzards and dogs, I suppose. Some had been shot in the head and some hadn't. They had been buried alive, I think. There were sort of scratches in the sand in one place, as if someone...
Anchor Planting. Picked up by a receiver above ground, the data are plotted on deceleration v. time and deceleration v. depth curves that are characteristic of the substance and structure of the soil that has been penetrated. Sandia engineers are already able to tell when the projectiles have passed through materials Ifke sand, silt, clay, water, mud and certain kinds of rock...
...being a bit fussy?" Then, casting a rueful glance at the guest's shears, she added: "That thing looks like something out of a medieval torture chamber." Another time, while administering to a Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table. As the camera zoomed in for a closeup, she advised squeamish viewers to avert their eyes. Then she went into a mighty windup and bashed the creepy crawler with a flowerpot...
Dartmouth won the toss, and elected to receive. With Ryzewicz running and passing, the Green quickly moved onto Harvard soil. Beard dropped back to pass at the Crimson 46. John Emery hit him hard, and Stan Greenidge snared the fumble to give the Crimson its first chance to score...
...triangle contains not only most of Wisconsin's urban and industrial development, but also the finest farmland. In addition to its proximity to metropolitan markets, the triangle offers better soil--plus the longer growing seasons afforded by Lake Michigan...