Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People of the Philippines, I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. ... At my side is your president, Sergio Osmeña, worthy successor to that great patriot, Manuel Quezon, with members of his cabinet. The seat of your government is therefore now firmly re-established on Philippine soil. . . . Rally to me. . . . Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory...
...invasion of Leyte was like no other in the long series which had carried Douglas MacArthur back to the Philippines. It was the first piece of recovered U.S. soil he had trod; it was an area where fighting had never entirely ceased...
...German counterattacks were mounted by topnotch fighting outfits, which furnished enough cohesion to keep the whole wall from crumbling. Substandard soldiers, as well as good soldiers, seemed to draw strength from the "holy soil" and the well-fitted defenses...
...best is threatened by the expanding immensity of 20th-century big-business farming. Most impressive-and to many, most depressing-shots in the film show the implacable march of incredibly proficient machines across vast acreages of California and New Jersey, with human beings assuming a relationship to the soil almost as impersonal as work in great factories, or in the bull pens of great companies...
...Writers. In my opinion, one man stands above and apart from all these things. He is Mikhail Sholokhov, the nearest approach to a man of genius in Russia's great tradition. The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes. He does not come to Moscow to spend the writers' tremendous royalties and reap his great honors. He refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees...