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Word: soiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exhaust the site before modern construction destroyed it forever. Under the pressure of a deadline, some ten diggers worked at a fast pace in the cold and rain all day. I barely knew what I was doing, but by the week's end, I could "read" a plot of soil and follow the edge of a pit or foundation...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Summer Archeologists: Queues and Callouses | 2/25/1972 | See Source »

Today, several of its buildings are once again in ruins. Only a huge crater in the yellow clay-colored soil remains where the traditional medicine building once stood. Four patients were killed, blown apart. Three days after the attack the staff found the head of one patient 150 meters from the crater. Hardly any sign of the building remains...

Author: By Banning Garrett, | Title: Viet Nam: U.S. Bombs Hit Hospital in the North | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

...Presidents, John Nance Garner in 1935 and Henry Wallace in 1944, made trips to China during their terms in office. Ulysses S. Grant toured Peking, Shanghai and Canton in 1879, two years after he had left the presidency. But no incumbent U.S. President has ever set foot on Chinese soil. This time, the whole world will watch on the tube the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations -and a triumph for Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Middle America to Middle Kingdom | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...with you." Each day, whether in Tulsa or traveling, Roberts gets a thick, typed list of the names and needs of all those who write with requests. He sometimes prays for them spectacularly-from a 200-ft. Prayer Tower that rises like a giant top out of the Oklahoma soil. Those in a hurry may call in to a 24-hour telephone watch at the Tower, where prayer counselors are always on duty to give spiritual comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oral's Progress | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Israel in contrast was to be the home of a new type of Jew who lived off the soil in a land of his own, the land of his ancestors, not afraid to fight for his existence. There is a revealing anecdote widespread in Israel about a young Israeli child who when told by his father about the horrors of the Holocaust, asked incredulously, "But why didn't the Jews kill the Nazis with their Uzzis? (submachine guns)" If at times the Israelis seem abrupt, almost rude to the do-gooders who would advise them on how to wage their...

Author: By Ruvane Maruit, | Title: One Version of the War in Israel | 1/28/1972 | See Source »

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