Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times, seepage from underground mains almost forced them to abandon the project. But they kept digging. They installed a ventilation system, used walkie-talkies to warn of the approach of Red Vopo patrols. At the West Berlin entrance to the tunnel they put up a sign that read: "Walter...
...necessary to ask you not to proceed with the government's already announced intention to grant me a personal allowance. I wish to add that I do not intend to leave our country, which my husband and I served with devotion to our beloved people, and this Greek soil which received so affectionately my unforgettable husband, the King...
Third and youngest son of President John Quincy Adams and father of Historians Henry and Brooks, Charles Francis* was not so famous as the other Adamses; he served in Congress, ran for Vice President in 1848 on the Free Soil ticket, was Ambassador to England during the Civil War. Yet he left behind by far the longest Adams diary, to be published in 18 volumes, the first two of which...
Fiddler is sweet in spirit, true in tone, and its shawled, long-skirted women and bearded, black-hatted men look more like folk than showfolk. Jerome Robbins' dances are closer to the soil than to concrete, and a male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched on the men's hats is a tingling display of rigid torsos and agile Slavic slides...
...week urged a vote of no confidence against him, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri took it calmly. He said, "If all the people around me talk highly of me, my feet will not remain on the ground, and I will not know my mistakes and rectify them." Flowing Night Soil. During his three months in office, punctuated by a heart attack, diminutive Shastri has grappled vainly with a serious food crisis. And now huge floods, unusual even for India's monsoon season, are surging over seven states, from Assam in the east to the Punjab in the west. More...