Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...morning last week in Rome's Palazzo Madama, Presiding Senator Enrico Molé solemnly announced to his colleagues: "At this moment Italian troops are entering the incomparably Italian soil of Trieste." At the same magic hour, Rome's students poured from their classrooms and surged joyfully through flag-lined streets, chanting: Viva Trieste Italiana...
...countryside is still liberally sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still...
...awkward bow to something that Tuckerman cannot handle within the scope of his novel. Well worn phrases constantly appear, as when Teuckerman talks of an English boy, "He never did understand them (the French), although with thousands of his own kind he gave up his life on French soil a few years later." Of course the thought is sympathetic and rightly reverent, but it has been said so many times before in just those words...
...captions also mentioned the "well-carpentered" houses, city library, and a nursery "somewhat comparable to a U.S. nursery." Nowhere did the picture story mention that the area Salisbury was describing was in the heartland of what he now calls a "horrible stain on the face of the Russian soil and an indictment of the Russian conscience...