Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seoul's City Hall Plaza, the President was revivified by the sight of people massed as far as he could see. "To an American," he declared, "the free soil of Korea is hallowed ground." Lunching with American servicemen just 15 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone the next day, he lauded them in grisly language as "the boys that are willing to go and die and leave their arms and legs and their eyes all over the world. Except for you and your brothers who came here ahead of you, Korea would now be under the master...
...cope not only with "this Dictator Johnson with the long nose," as the President himself put it, but with half a dozen Asian nations as well. The other was to help cultivate the fragile shoots of regional cooperation that are beginning to poke through Asia's stony political soil, in which enmity has always flourished far more readily than amity...
Canadian prosperity, at least in the short run, appears to depend on continued American investment. As a result, most anti-Americanism in Canada has not focused on the investment issue, but on peripheral questions like the installation of American nuclear missiles on Canadian soil, or a plan to divert Canadian water into...
...March 1945, this private conduit had admitted an astonishing emissary onto Swiss soil: Nazi General Karl Wolff, commander of the SS (Hitler's elite Schutzstaffel) in northern Italy. Like many of his fellow generals, Wolff had lost faith in a Führer whose paranoia refused to see that Germany was losing the war; like few of them, Wolff was prepared to do something about it. Meeting with Dulles in Zurich, he proposed to deliver every enemy soldier in northern Italy to the Allied cause...
...achieve underground paving, the M.S.U. researchers designed a tractor-pulled Rube Goldberg device that lifts a 2-ft.-deep strip of earth from the field, sprays warm liquid asphalt underneath it, and then allows the soil to settle back in place. The asphalt solidifies immediately into a 34-in.-wide, ⅛-in.-thick ribbon. Adjacent ribbons are overlapped to ensure that the entire layer will be watertight. To reduce costs, Engineer Hansen is now working on a machine that will lay down lO-ft.-wide strips...