Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angry crowds gathered at the dockside as Armitage murmured to an aide his last words on Cypriot soil ("I do hope George remembered my umbrella") and departed. The smaller, non-Communist Cyprus Confederation of Workers joined the Communist union and paralyzed the island with a 24-hour strike. Idle workers stoned British troops in Limassol and tried to mass in Nicosia's square, but the Tommies and police fixed bayonets, swung clubs, fired tear gas, arrested 209 demonstrators, and generally let it be known that with the coming of Fighting John Harding, Cyprus' era of tolerant umbrellaism...
...safe and mobile hideout under a foreign flag on the Paraguayan gunboat. He, spent all last week there, while Argentina prodded Paraguay to guarantee that it would not let Perón mount a counterrevolution from Paraguay, which is separated only by rivers from Argentine soil. This week, apparently satisfied, Argentina let its busted boss fly off to exile...
Bison & Oxen. The fame of the school of mines soon spread to the whole institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed...
...party affiliation. Nationalistic, in the Argentine army tradition, but not rabidly so Prospects. Clearing away the rubble of the shattered Perón regime is only the beginning. Problems are mainly political; economic ailments nagged the country under Peron. but Argentina is a basically rich country with wonderfully fertile soil probably needs little economic doctoring beyond a healthy dose of freedom. Toughest task is likely to be dealing with the sullen labor-confederation members who won substantial gains under Peron and hated...
...welcoming as a permanent resident of our state, for seven days a week and 52 weeks a year, a former President and a General of the Army of the U.S.-a man who longs, as we all know, for the comforts of a handsome farm stead on the fertile soil of Adams County, near Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania...