Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATO, but the idea was blackballed by Eisenhower and Macmillan. He probably would have been as intransigent as a co-director as he has been without becoming one. Since then, he has progressively withdrawn French ground and naval forces from NATO commands, banished U.S. nuclear warheads from French soil, and sunk billions of francs into a crash program to create a nuclear force de frappe...
...country, with her tinted sky, her varied contours, her fertile soil, our fields full of fine corn and vines and livestock, our industry, our gifts of initiative, adaptation and self-respect, make us, above all others, a race created for brilliant deeds...
...been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm, working the rocky soil and scratching out poems in the evening by lamplight. The experience shaped his poetry and his thinking, but failed to impress...
...three inspections each year to investigate suspicious tremors: the U.S. thought that eight inspections would be the minimum, having whittled that down from its original twelve. While the U.S. has been demanding that at least a dozen unmanned seismic detection stations, or "black boxes," be installed on Soviet soil, Khrushchev said that three would do-one each in Siberia's Altai Mountains, the Virgin Lands of Soviet Central Asia and the Soviet Far East. "We believe," he concluded, "that now the road to agreement is straight and clear...
...years ago, in open imitation of Europe's Six, five nations of Central America-Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and, later, Costa Rica-set up their own common market. But, unlike its European model, the Central American Common Market has poor economic soil to grow in: per capita income in its five member nations averages $200 a year, and heavy industry is almost nonexistent. Last week, at a meeting in El Salvador, the executive council of the Central American Common Market put into effect a curious plan to foster industrial growth. Henceforth, the five nations will select one company...