Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before a hundred hairless faces in the aqua and ochre and, I thought I should try to undo, in the hour and a half I had, the things that had been done to them in their short lives on Long Island. It would be wonderful if I could only soil them a bit, but my messianic pretensions soon gave way to the simpler chore of taking apart a poem for them...
...joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking the anniversary in very different ways. The following stones from three European capitals examine their separate observances and separate fates...
...first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seemingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking the anniversary in very different ways. The following stones from three European capitals examine their separate observances and separate fates: drive, showed up last week in an exhibition hall filled with World War II displays...
...aloud: "If only they'd let us lose the map." Last week their Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon, ordered them to do exactly that. Pointing to the Communist sanctuaries on his own White House map, the President announced that he had ordered thousands of U.S. combat troops onto Cambodian soil to knock them...
Hickel pointed out that the proposed line would carry hot oil over frozen soil. Unless designed with extreme care, he insisted, it would act like a hot poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...