Word: soiling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prison," the West enjoyed a huge propaganda coup. When she redefected to the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviets could claim their own victory after she said that she had not been free for "one single day" while living in the U.S. Last week Svetlana again returned to American soil. But this time neither East nor West had much to say, perhaps in recognition that her restless wanderings are intensely personal and have little to do with ideologies...
Lawyers for eight Woburn families are charging that factories owned by Grace and Beatrice contaminated the wells by knowingly dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...
Defense lawyers counter that the poison in the wells came not from their factories but from the nearby Aberjona River, whose banks are lined with industries that have dumped wastes for a century. Lawyer Michael Keating argued that the soil under the Grace Cryovac plant was too dense to allow seepage...
...flare of some sort had been lit, and its orange smoke filled the room, Everett said. There was glass on the floor that appeared to be from broken bottles, and a large potted plant had been "thrown against the wall," its soil and broken pot adding to the "mess on the floor," he said...
...head. "Isn't it better to discuss our defense with our European partners instead of just with the Americans?" asked Gonzalez. In an effort to increase the size of the yes vote, the referendum promises, in addition, that nuclear weapons would continue to be prohibited on Spanish soil and the number of authorized U.S. troops in Spain would be reduced from its current number...