Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "the day may come when Turkey and Britain will want to act in the Middle East, and Greece will not," would it not be more to the mutual interests of Turkey and Britain for Mr. Menderes to invite Sir Anthony Eden to build a base on the secure soil of Turkey...
...vetoed the Democrats' boondoggling 90%-of-parity farm bill while farm-state Republicans shuddered, then won passage of a soil-bank farm bill more to his liking. A belated Administration drive to put through a moderate civil-rights bill died virtually unmourned by either party in the Senate last week. Killed earlier because of its involvement with the civil-rights issue: the school-construction bill, primarily because Manhattan's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. had tacked on his highly political desegregation amendment (TIME. July...
...SOIL BANK plan to cut surplus in six basic crops (corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice, peanuts) is off to slow start. Agriculture Department reports that farmers have signed up to take only 2,000,000 acres out of production at cost to Government of $37 million for this year's bank. Goal for next year is 8 million to 15 million acres in bank, with long-term target of 25 million acres annually...
...having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening prattle that has gone before. I could accept the fact that raising a garden on chalk soil symbolized overcoming the obstacles of life, but any more detailed meaning seemed just too heavy for the dramatic structure to bear...
...cannot sustain friendship by giving up what was always Turkish soil...