Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eulogy delivered by Teng Hsiao-ping. A silent mass of people lined the Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity as the hearse bearing Chou's remains moved slowly away to scatter the ashes, as China's official news agency put it, "in the rivers and on the soil of our motherland...
Said's study took him along both banks of the Nile and deep into the deserts. He studied the magnetism of rocks to determine when they had been formed, used radioactive dating methods to determine the age of soil samples and fossils and checked other geological records, such as sea-floor samples from the Mediterranean. As a result of his research, Said has traced the history of the Nile back better than 5 million years, and identified at least five different rivers that flowed during that interval. They...
Made from a cactus-like succulent grown in volcanic soil near the town of Tequila in Jalisco, tequila was probably the first distilled liquor in America; it was an Aztec tipple. Today its staunchest U.S. aficionados are in the West, where generations of visitors to Baja California have knocked back the musty-smelling liquor for a few cents a glass. It is no cheap shot north of the border; prized brands like José Cuervo 1800 and Sauza Conmemorativo sell for $10 to $11 a fifth. Nonetheless, at outlets such as Liquor Castle in Beverly Hills, which sells 20 cases...
...Secretary naturally agrees. Indeed, his eyes shine as he bites into a cheese sandwich and ruminates on his vision of the American land From Ohio to the Rockies and from Canada to the high plains of Texas, he says there is no place like it on earth-the fertile soil, the good growing climate, a topography well suited to mechanical operation, and farmers with the skills and capital to make the most of their opportunity. In the decades ahead, this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most...
...French producers, who insist that true champagne can only be a product of the special chalky soil and temperate climate of the region that bears its name, blame their sales problem on foreign imitations. They are dismayed by the popularity of Italian sparkling wines and Australian, Russian and even Japanese "champagnes," as well as the U.S. varieties. Battling back, French producers have launched the first publicity drive in the French champagne industry's history. At a cost of $425,000, billboards have been put up in some areas of France and neighboring Belgium that show two glasses raised...