Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.A.A. helped to win a Canadian murder conviction in 1959 by matching the accused's hair with tiny hair samples found on the victim. The first such U.S. conviction occurred last winter in a New York federal court, which accepted N.A.A. evidence as proof that the soil found on a truck hauling illicit liquor matched the soil around a moonshiner's still in Georgia...
...Allies had refused to recognize De Gaulle as the head of a provisional French government, had even toyed with the idea of creating a "third force" in France, minus De Gaulle. They kept him in the dark about the Normandy invasion, allowed him to set foot on French soil only eight days later. But De Gaulle was unperturbed. As soon as he landed in France, he declined an invitation to lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery. "We have not come to France to have luncheon with Montgomery," he said scornfully, and headed straight for the first sizable town to be liberated...
Born & Bred. Halfway through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner...
...Constitution leaves the preservation of peace and good order exclusively to the states, said the law professors. But the argument has been without merit since 1879, when the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Government's power to command obedience to its laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional assurances of equality, should...
...What inspired me most in the area of art and culture in America was jazz music," Stuart Davis once said. It was hot jazz, city jazz, that Davis painted, right up until his death at the age of 69 last week. He was rooted in the American soil, but that soil was concrete. He loathed the country and loved the city, specifically Manhattan, and his abstract but objective works are syncopations of urban life...