Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gaulle stood on a balcony at Montreal's city hall and encouraged the province's then violent separatist movement with his cry of "Vive le Quebec libre ((Long live free Quebec))." Until President Francois Mitterrand arrived last week, no French chief of state had set foot on Canadian soil since then...
...species from the total of a Texas team, thus costing it a tie with California for the national title. The team, while standing on the banks of the Rio Grande, had sighted groove-billed anis. The ABA decided that although the eyeballs of the Texans were indeed on U.S. soil, the birds were in Mexico, outside the official area of the game, and could not be listed. The birding world, particularly at its highest level, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty in listing...
What triggers the insect's emergence from the ground exactly on cue in the final months of its life cycle is one of nature's continuing mysteries. Scientists assume that hormones play a role. The creatures also appear at about the time the soil temperature reaches 68 degrees F to 70 degrees F, which is why they are first seen in the South. Says University of Michigan Biologist Thomas Moore: "It's an amazing demonstration of biological complexity...
Will our NATO allies ever make up their minds about nuclear weapons? In the early 1980s, when the Europeans staged mass protests against U.S. missiles on their soil, some West European leaders hedged on the decision to allow additional arms to be based in their countries. Now, fearing a Soviet attack with conventional weapons, some of these very same politicians have turned around 180 degrees to say that nuclear warheads may not be such a bad idea. If our NATO allies cannot decide what position to take, then the U.S. must take a stand on its own. We should start...
...volunteer working on behalf of the Sandinistas to die in Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents and two siblings had flown in from the U.S., honoring Linder's request to be buried in Nicaragua if he was killed. Shortly before his father David poured Oregon soil on the wooden casket, he said, "Benjamin felt he belonged here...