Word: arid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since 1904. This year's crop will be sufficient only for seed. And Algeria, where bloody revolts were bloodily suppressed (TIME, May 28), was still hungry...
Pollsters got busy on Britain's general election. The British Gallup Poll began sampling early last month. Chief (arid purely hypothetical) question: "If Liberals, Labor, Common Wealth, Independent Labor Party and the Communist Party united as a Popular Front against the Conservatives at the next general election . . . which would you be most likely to vote for, the Popular Front candidate or the Conservative...
Standing before the nation's Capitol on March 4, 1933, he said, "This nation asks for action, arid action...
...property of the Ballet Russe, Frankie and Johnnie is scheduled for twelve Manhattan performances arid a subsequent road tour. Because, in its own vernacular, "it ain't got no moral," Frankie and Johnnie landed in the East at just the right moment to add fresh fuel to Manhattan's roaring theatrical censorship squabble (see THEATER). After the opening performance, censors tidied...
Hope for the Best is a pretty arid comedy. Almost void of plot, it vainly falls back on its second line of defense- its bloodless, undramatic characters; then on its third line- its ideas and talk. The ideas, involving democracy now and to come, are sound but superimposed. The talk, though sometimes diverting and sometimes sharp, is eventually just engulfing...