Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal family, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson, were dedicating a memorial to the late President at Runnymede. "With all their hearts, my people shared his triumphs, grieved at his reverses and wept at his death," said Queen Elizabeth, as she gave to the U.S. an acre of British soil on which stood a simple, white stone monument, 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. high. Shaded by a hawthorne tree and overlooking the Thames, it bears a passage from Kennedy's inaugural address: "Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support...
...Dominican Republic, the people speak Spanish rather than Creole French. Its soil is more fertile, and its population density only half that of its smaller neighbor. What it shares is a common history of chaos. As in Haiti, bloody rebellions drove out the European governors, first the French in 1809, then the Spanish who had tried to reassert their dominion. No sooner had the Dominican Republic declared its independence in 1821 than it was invaded by neighboring Haiti, which occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo...
...cars can survive a route that meanders all the way from mushy beaches to 12,000-ft.-high hairpins, from riverbeds to swamps. The surface is often black-cotton soil that turns to treacle at the first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half...
...winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with reminders that the star has previously played such roles as Ben-Hur, Moses and John the Baptist. With Old Testament wrath, he pursues Chief Sierra Charriba through the wilderness in A.D. 1865. But once Heston gets on Mexican soil, Director Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country) lets Dundee ramble so freely that the Apaches are soon lost in subplots...
...frustration with language too meager to ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...