Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis not only have restored some of the water collection systems left by the ancient Nabateans in the Negev desert, but are letting the runoff nourish flourishing orchards of almond and pistachio trees. Another strategy for making the Negev bloom: drip irrigation systems that feed small amounts of water directly to the roots of plants with the help of computer monitors...
...players developed on 20 Dodger farm teams. Rickey spent his final years calculating compound interest. Some players whom he sold for $150,000 are now unemployed. Historically, you did not make millions playing ball. You made millions by owning a ball club. I recall no consistent campaign against the ancient robber barons of sport, except in the Daily Worker, which had a limited following...
...strategic withdrawal. The days of euphoria are over." With those words, a World Health Organization official last week gloomily characterized the current state of man's long battle against an ancient scourge: malaria. As recently as 15 years ago, health authorities were confident that they were well on the way to the total conquest of malaria. The dread disease, which afflicted as many as 300 million people at a time in the 1940s, was being swept away by the clouds of DDT spray that killed the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. Now, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, malaria...
...behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments reads like a catalogue of a vanished past. Certainly it belies the propaganda claim that Peking has carefully preserved the country's ancient heritage...
...murdered town, a disfigured ghost of what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the world." The fabulous imperial Forbidden City remains; so does the exquisitely harmonious Temple of Heaven -marred only by a huge red screen bearing the inevitable Mao poem. But the capital's ancient wall and magnificent gates have been torn down. Dozens of graceful arches have been destroyed. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed for broad, eerily empty avenues. The reasons once again have to do with the politics of totalitarianism. "Exalting deserts of tarmac" are required for those mass demonstrations in which...