Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation and to the world, that John Kennedy was looking far beyond the threat to Berlin, preparing for the menace of a Communist aggression that has no global limits. The military buildup he has begun is directed not so much at the possibility of war on German soil as at the reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses...
...good-luck charms. In the south are the hard-working Annamese peasants, squatting under conical hats of palm leaves in the brimming Mekong Delta marshes to plant the rice that is South Viet Nam's chief source of sustenance and a major export. The delta's deep black soil is some of the world's richest, could produce still more food if developed with roads, modern farming techniques. It is this great food potential that makes Ho Chi Minh and his hungry North Vietnamese press southward toward...
...Scraped Soil. Large areas of the test site are still littered with bomb-twisted steel and wrecked buildings, but the site's radioactivity has notably declined since the start of the test moratorium. "Hot" debris has been removed from the dangerous places where bombs exploded; in some cases several inches of soil have been scraped up with bulldozers. But caution has not relaxed. All workers wear radiation-detecting devices and are carefully checked in and out of their jobs...
...some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees on a nearby mesa show no radiation damage. The local animals (red foxes, snakes, rodents) are doing fine-for the time being...
...sorts, over issues of a sort, was being fought last week by two countries who were sort of friends the day before hostilities. Tunisia and France, joined in the dubious nostalgia of ex-colony and motherland, were firing at each other on Tunisian soil and exchanging bitter charges in the august echo chamber of the United Nations Security Council...