Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trepczynski explained that resolving the German problem is essential to European detente. "Two world wars and much postwar tension began on German soil," he said...
Coupled with this unexpected find was the announcement-made by scientists at the French atomic center at Ca-darache-that the Oklo ore also contained four rare elements in forms similar to those found in depleted uranium. To Perrin, those clues suggested that deep under the African soil, random natural conditions had prompted an energetic but nonexplosive chain reaction-a phenomenon that man can produce only by scientific techniques...
...cable to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Amin declared that Hitler had been right about the Jews because "the Israelis are not working in the interests of the people of the world, and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany." He once admired the Israelis. Only a year ago, while visiting Jerusalem, the Moslem Amin had asked the Israeli air force to fly him to Mecca. Since then, however, after receiving a promise of aid from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, he has expelled all Israelis from Uganda, including military advisers that...
Venera confirmed readings by earlier Soviet and U.S. missions indicating that the temperature on the surface of Venus is about 880° F-hot enough to melt lead. The spacecraft also revealed that Venusian surface material is only about half the density of soil on earth...
Once the digging began, new problems and complaints arose. Since Back Bay is all built on land that was reclaimed last century from the Charles River Basin-really a swamp filled with sand and gravel-digging into the unstable soil disrupted nearby areas. Streets and sidewalks rose and fell, sometimes as much as six feet, pinching and twisting telephone, electric and gas lines. Several water mains broke. As a result, the city and local utilities are suing Hancock for some...