Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Responsibilities (CRR), reform of the Ad Board, or other items of concern to the assembly--Pearl took time off and went to Europe. She "had had it" with Harvard. But she gained a new appreciation for the United States. She met Irish Catholics trying to subsist on the tired soil west of the Shannon River. She slipped a Newsweek to an information hungry Romanian school teacher. A man poured a bucket of Sangria over her head in Pamplona. It was time to come home...
...Soviet submarine cruising in the North Atlantic, detonates near ground level at the Science Center. Within seconds, Memorial Hall and the Yard disappear into a crater more than 200 feet deep. The third largest library in the world is flattened, its collection buried under a thick crust of radioactive soil thrown up from the blast's hole. Little is left standing between the Quad and the Charles River...
...down-to-earth Roman Pontiff, who had gamely come to Britain in the face of a nasty South Atlantic war and a persistent antipapal spirit in the British Isles. Said John Paul, simply: "Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on British soil." With that, applause from the congregation of 3,000 rolled through the cathedral. "My deep desire," the Pope said, as the eyes of his audience welled with emotion and tears, "my ardent hope and prayer is that my visit may serve the cause of Christian unity...
...roots, around rocks, channeling down the dirt roads, washing away culverts and shoulders and gravel. At night it freezes again, heaving the roadbed up into ridges like a freshly plowed field. By dawn the ground is reglazed with ice. With the sun the gurgle and tumble start anew. The soil undulates, like a waterbed...
...installed an experimental center-pivot sprinkler that, instead of spraying outward, gently drops water directly into the planted furrows, thereby reducing evaporation. Sophisticated laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these techniques are rarities, but they may soon be routine. As Kansas Cattle Feeder Harold Burnett puts it: "Water misers" will last longer. But even the stingiest will go under if neighbors are wasteful and the whole aquifer dries...