Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing harmlessly with the soil, it goes into the stomachs of caribou and becomes part of their bones and flesh. When Eskimos eat the caribou, they get the radioactive skimmings of many acres of lichen-covered ground...
...central tier, some 20,000 acres of pasture land and citrus groves, will preserve Irvine's agricultural tradition ?partly because of its soil and climate, partly because Pereira feels that agriculture is essential to the economic health of the area. The top tier, 30,000 acres of rugged peaks and ragged canyons?a mountain wilderness of deer, coyote and quail, pungent with sage and stippled with cactus?will be reserved for recreation, and it will take considerable population pressure before any residential development will be permitted...
...Ever since May 1961, when he aggravated his old back ailment while lifting a spadeful of soil at a tree-planting ceremony in Canada, John F. Kennedy has stayed off the golf course. So it came as a surprise when, early this month, newsmen spotted the President swinging vigorously away on the course at Hyannis Port...
Administration spokesmen can muster plenty of precedent: the interstate commerce clause has long been used to justify all manner of regulatory legislation. In testimony last week, Attorney General Kennedy cited 38 congressional acts sprung from the fertile soil of the clause...
...from planting a terrorist German regime in France as he did in Holland, by dragging his feet in dispatching conscript French workers to Germany, by getting prisoners of war repatriated, by fighting to protect French Jews. "You don't save France," he reproached the Gaullists, "by quitting her soil...