Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corn in Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining channels, removing snags and other obstructions, and by straightening bends, the engineers reduced flow resistance. Combined with local expenditures, these federal programs will eventually provide for 87 million acre-feet of flood-control storage in 219 reservoirs in the U.S., more than 9,000 miles of levees and floodwalls...
...childhood, and whose pretensions are often very cruelly snubbed. In this case they should be snubbed. Advance is moving too fast over the largely unexplored and extremely boggy ground of liberal Republicanism, and if its editors are at all bothered by doubt about the nature and quality of the soil, they betray none of their misgivings...
...illegal kidnap-arrest of Eichmann in Argentina. Many were shocked that Eichmann had found it impossible to recruit ex-Nazi colleagues to serve as defense witnesses. Reason: the Israeli government had refused to promise that they themselves would not be arrested if they set foot on Israeli soil...
...wife of Antony Armstrong-Jones's best man and five Eton schoolboys carrying a suitably supercilious banner: "Even Eton Says Ban the Bomb." The common purpose of all the marchers: to make publicity for the unilateral nuclear disarmament of Britain and an end to NATO bases on British soil...
...quit in anger and disgust after 39 days. Never much of a politician, Miró Cardona leads no movement of his own and promises to serve only until elections, for which he will not be a candidate. When and if the council manages to win a piece of Cuban soil, Provisional President Miró Cardona will move in, and the council will be formally renamed the Provisional Government-in-Arms...