Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there will always be a moderate climate." The Syrian attempts to recover their dignity were both funny and pathetic. The NATO maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even as in the U.N. his Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar conceded that the much-advertised threat of Turkish attack was not worth debating, and dropped Syria's demand for investigation...
...losing their newly won independence and impatience to cease being among the world's forgotten peoples. Sometimes these policies are marked by a certain amount of doctrinaire thinking and preconceptions that are a hangover of a period when power and responsibility were denied to the sons of the soil. Insofar as foreign investment is concerned, the door is open, but it is true that no one waits at the door with open arms...
...France the guillotine and Napoleon drowned liberty in blood; in the American, colonies a war was fought that brings distress to Churchill even now. An old hand at portraiture, he can cut down to size those who displease him. Of King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent prose is apt to be high-flown: "The lure of gold and the sting of Cadiz inspired the leaders, and at last they...
...muster only a lame statement that it "did not want to regiment the U.S. farmer any more than necessary." As usual, the Agriculture Department closed the barn-door-sized loophole after the Government till had been tapped. In the next crop year, farmers who put 25 acres into the soil bank will not get price supports on more than 75 acres of total crops. But few farmers are seriously worried. Though the great sorghum game is over, farmers are sure that when the time comes there will be plenty of other loopholes to shovel surpluses through...
Alec Guiness plays a shy and quiet impoverished chemist who invents an indestructible and soil-proof fabric on the sly and manages to cause no small furor in the ranks of British industry and labor, as they try to suppress the invention, the first fearful of depleting the business, the second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles...