Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations peace-keeping force whose only assignment has been to keep the two hostile nations from each other's throats. Last week Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the U.N. troops to withdraw-"for their own protection"-not only from the border but from Egyptian soil entirely. Into their positions moved an Egyptian force estimated at 60,000 men, including one armored and four infantry divisions. It was the first time in ten years that Egyptian and Israeli troops had been in each other's gun sights, and it came at a time when the Arab-Israeli conflict, charged...
...Enam, the second tale, develops much the same theme. Gemulah, the wife of Gabriel Gamzu, has been transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel, and begins to wither like a flower torn from the soil. When the moon is full, she speaks in a tongue long dead and sings songs of unearthly beauty-all of this recorded by an unreal, evanescent figure named Ginath...
With its facile, steel-tipped aluminum claw, which can be extended to 5 ft., Surveyor dug and photographed more trenches, helping to confirm its earlier finding that the soil at the surface in this area of the Ocean of Storms is dry and granular but has the cohesiveness of wet sand. By measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that operated the claw, JPL scientists determined that the surrounding surface has a bearing strength of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support the Apollo astronauts...
Half-Inch Accuracy. Surveyor's virtuoso performance was still to come. Noticing a clod of soil dug out of one of its trenches, the craft closed its claw on the clump, biting off about two cubic inches of soil. Carefully clutching its prize, Surveyor maneuvered it into position and then dropped it on one of its footpads, much like a child dropping a handful of sand on its shoe...
Surveyor had serious reasons for its frisky behavior. Rotating a series of color filters in front of its TV camera, it shot pictures of the soil scattered on its white footpad-which made an ideal photographic background. Scientists will compare the shade of the soil in black and white pictures with a color-coded wheel that is attached to Surveyor's leg and is visible in each picture. From the comparison, they hope to determine the approximate color of the soil. "We placed the soil just where we wanted it," said Caltech Engineer Ronald Scott, who supervised the experiment...