Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of closure, the wooden barrier at the Iranian-Russian border was lifted last week, and a Russian train rolled across. A Russian bank official stepped out onto Iranian soil, greeted Iranian officials in Russian and presented his credentials...
...famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the country's exports. The Humboldt Current cools the whole coast, and as a crowning convenience serves up the anchovies that feed the seabirds that provide the guano (droppings) used to fertilize the soil. In the coastal north are oilfields that make Peru an oil exporter (though output is dropping...
Obviously, in his first hour on Yugoslav soil, Khrushchev had badly overreached himself. Anxious lest any Westerners get the wrong ideas. Yugoslav officials spent the next two days buttonholing newsmen to announce how outraged, how embarrassed, how annoyed they were at what Khrushchev proposed...
...income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
...like in the way of culture can turn themselves over to one of the new package tours being conducted by professional music guides. They pick up the customer at Idlewild Airport, shuffle him through a pattern of the right sights and sounds, then deposit him back on U.S. soil. Typical cost: $1,500 for six weeks...