Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time had more than 20 U.S. military bases on its soil. Then came the invasion of Cyprus, the U.S. arms embargo (revoked last September), and Turkey's present view that it can no longer rely on a "single source" (i.e. the U.S.) for its arms...
...1970s were the decade in which Modernism died. Its Boot Hill turned out to be the U.S., in whose hospitable soil the dreams of the pioneers of modern art and architecture lie buried, toes to the rising sun. Once they hoped the world would be made whole by new paintings and new buildings. It was not, and there is no avant-garde any more; the very phrase has been scrapped, becoming one of the historical curiosities of criticism...
...future, and American astronauts have again landed on the moon. Emerging from their spacecraft, they perform such familiar chores as setting up a TV camera, placing various scientific instruments around their landing site, and collecting rocks and samples of the dusty lunar soil. Then they return to the ship to prepare for more far-ranging exploration. When the spacecraft's big hatch reopens, the astronauts scoot out, pedaling away as if they were on bicycles...
When faced with that question, a U.S. official replies, "Think about it for a minute. Those troops would be stationed on Iranian soil. They might very well find themselves confronted with Iranian mobs shouting 'Yankee, go home.' Either they would have to go home or they would be embroiled in a civil war-probably on the losing side...
Labor can only increase its power by either loosening the organizational constraints keeping the leadership's sphere of potential actions from shifting to the left, or by the leaders themselves adopting a more leftist ideological orientation. Canada's worsening economy promises to provide fertile soil for the increased politicization of working people and the adoption of more militant postures to protect hard-pressed rights and gains. The extent to which the Canadian left can stimulate renewed political interest, and perhaps more importantly, the extent to which renewed political interest stimulates the Canadian left, will jointly determine the fate of progressive...