Word: soiling
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...sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg, Fertilize it with the blood of heroes, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand...
...Soviet Union seems peculiarly constituted to keep under control the tensions generated by the contradiction between the system's inherent strengths and weaknesses. It is where that system has been transplanted from its native soil that the contradiction will continue to yield crisis. Left on its own as an economic and social model, Communism would have long since been massively reformed if not discarded in Poland, as well as in many other countries where it prevails today. But the Soviet Union will not, if it can help it, let that happen. Wherever Communism is an emblem and instrument...
...three-day meeting was the first formal conclave on East German soil between East and West German leaders since Chancellor Willy Brandt helped launch his Ostpolitik in 1970 by meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in Erfurt, 40 miles east of the frontier. Initiated by the East Germans, the weekend summit had been twice postponed because of East-West friction over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in Poland. A further irritant was provided last year by the Honecker government's new currency regulations, which greatly increased the cost of travel from West...
...place at Patrick's Point State Park, and for the Yuroks, a small tribe of California Indians, it was an especially important rite. After years of anguished protest, they had finally recovered the bones of their ancestors, plundered by scientists and amateur collectors, and reburied them in sacred soil. But for many California scientists, especially archaeologists and anthropologists, the ceremony had a different meaning: it was the latest episode in a continuing battle over the right of researchers to study America's distant past...
...morning: "May your day be scented with jasmine." Sometimes the exaggerations that are inherent in Arabic can be dangerous. Saudi Arabia's late King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing "Rip 'em Up, tear 'em up." But the words made headlines all over the world as a statement of bloody Saudi intent...