Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after conferences with Australia's Minister for Territories Charles Barnes and Prime Minister Robert Menzies, vowing: "The whole world will know how you've treated us!" With that, DeRoburt announced that his people would now remain on Nauru and seek to have it filled with crop-growing soil, take over the remaining phosphate deposits-and become an independent state by 1967. Whether the latter will come to pass remains to be seen. But clearly what the Nauruans want is just what South Pacific's Bloody Mary recommended-their own special island...
Nowadays the fragrance of Hong Kong comes from dead fish, firecracker dust, rotting cabbage, auto exhausts and night soil, all woven into a unique miasma. There are 100,000 people who live afloat in suburbs of sampans and never use a toilet or garbage pail. But the main source of trouble is a place ten miles from the city quaintly named Gin Drinkers' Bay by the British and more accurately known as Garbage Bay to the Chinese...
...more liberal church, meaning an easier church; we know that all true Christianity must be difficult, for all Christians are called to carry the Cross after our Master. We do not want to change the church so much as we want to see accretions removed that serve only to soil the purity conferred by her Founder...
...Spain inexorably involves a set of attitudes to and by the government. The Civil War, cutting off a rich flowering of painting and sculpture, turned Picasso into a rebellious exile in France, Dali into a Franco sympathizer, Miró into a resister who stood his ground on Spanish soil. Until 1958, art and the government fought a wary underground war, and the world wondered whether the Spanish art had ended in 1937 with Picasso's Guernica...
Diego Carabassa, 35, whose family once owned 1,500,000 acres, now runs two ranches totaling 7,200 acres near Buenos Aires. At 22, he quit a dry economics course at the University of Buenos Aires and began plowing through the latest U.S. studies in genetics, animal husbandry and soil conservation. Over the past nine years, Carabassa has won 21 championships at Argentina's famed Palermo Show. "These are competitive times," he says. "It is not enough to sit back in Buenos Aires and open checks. They don't come unless you go out and earn them...