Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soil of Venezuela belongs to Venezuela . . ." says a Creole policy directive. "By means of an arrangement that is mutually profitable to Venezuela and ourselves, we are converting the country's greatest natural resource into the country's greatest source of income. This brings us into a partnership
...Russians buried on Norwegian soil, only a few lost their lives in liberating Norway from the Nazis. Most were soldiers and civilians captured by the Germans and taken to north Norway concentration camps, where they died. The Norwegians buried them in 200 graveyards scattered throughout their country. Ever since, like none-too-welcome neighbors once carelessly invited to dinner, Russian officials have been dropping over. Nominally they came to inspect the graves, but they used the occasion to take a good gander at Norway's defenses. The Norwegians have never complained, but in their laconic way they began moving...
...valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
When a final fix by the astronomers placed the center in Farmer Carl Daymen Snider's cornfield, well-wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
...line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none of which did the trick, Pfizer chemists came across terramycin in dirt from Indiana, promptly dubbed it the "Spirit...