Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow-with a $3 billion investment in arms and 19,000 technicians, troops and advisers on Egyptian soil -know about the plot? Sabry, Sharaf and Gomaa were the Russians' best friends in Cairo. Moreover, Soviet Ambassador Vladimir M. Vinogradov visited Sharaf for an hour the day before the attempted takeover. But there is no firm evidence of Soviet involvement...
...emphasis is on technical assistance in agronomy, water and soil development, highway planning, port development, fish breeding, sewage disposal, nutrition and handicrafts. Israeli experts have established citrus plantations in Madagascar and Uganda, a steamship line and a 16,000-acre cattle ranch in Ghana, a beekeeping industry in Senegal and massive poultry farms in Zambia and the Congo. In Togo, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Ghana, the Israelis have shown fascinated governments how to operate national lotteries...
...Secrets. To reverse the trend, three Italian scientists invited to the conference proposed implantation by artificial inoculation, sterilizing the soil before seedlings are introduced, and the use of trained dogs instead of the pigs that the French traditionally employ to sniff out the ripened tubers. Said one expert: "It only takes about three weeks to train no matter what kind of dog, and a dog is a lot easier to move around with. Getting a 450-lb. pig in and out of a Deux Chevaux is an unnecessary bother...
...foot of that one," said one. "It happens, by chance, that you can pluck a small fortune [at the current rate of about $20 per lb. wholesale]. But you must at least know some of the old secrets. For example, they say that by working the soil around the oaks under the March moon on the right day you get truffles that are well rounded. The truffle is a passion, not a culture...
Even as their own Mars vehicle raced toward its goal, the Soviets had another reason to be pleased. Six months after its landing, the eight-wheeled moon rover, Lunokhod I, was still continuing its lunar explorations, digging up soil samples with a conical drill and analyzing them with on-board instruments. It was also photographing the moonscape and scanning the heavens with an X-ray telescope that has already detected at least two sources of X-ray emissions in distant space. So overjoyed were the Russians by Lunokhod's performance that Pravda was moved to proletarian metaphor and compared...