Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students marched through the capital shouting "Down with Makarios!" . Others gathered at the statue of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, to sing his favorite marching song: The Mist Covers the Top of the Mountain. Then they marched angrily to army headquarters to present a parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey to review its peace-loving and patient attitude," declared the note, adding...
Muir's windows overlook the sea. He was born near the soil in Hunter, N.D. (pop. 417), and studied in New York at the Art Students League in 1923-24, but now he is enthralled by the littoral life that he has led on the Maine sea-coast since 1939. For his art derives from the botany of the place-the abstract fluidity with which nature cloaks its creatures. In carving through the gnarls and knots of wood, Muir tempts nature to remake itself in another natural image born of a natural...
...risen as much as 1,000% in the last decade. A growing population, the migration from cities to suburbia, increased prosperity and widespread speculation have all pushed up land prices and made old Henry Ford's dictum come true in a way that he never anticipated: "The soil is the source of wealth-not the banks." The worth of all the land in the U.S. is half a trillion dollars-nearly twice the assets of all commercial banks...
...impression that the land is cursed and suffering, groaning under the awful weight of history's sins. I can understand what Faulkner meant: it must be loved or hated...or both. It's hard to imagine how any music but the blues could have taken root in the black soil around...
...canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose salt content rose alarmingly from 800 parts per million to more than...