Word: arid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never old more than 300,000 cases a year. What makes Jack Daniel's so special is its clean, slightly smoky taste arid its smooth richness in the gullet. The secret goes back to 1866, when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest...
...convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also in charity . . . I might have wished . . . to assign Sister Aurelie to that emergency, or another of those devoted nuns serving under you, who have not been outside the grounds for weeks. You, Sister Luke, saw risk and excitement arid preempted this for yourself. You never thought how a sister might later enjoy clipping a little item from the newspaper (which has already telephoned me for your name) to send home to Belgium for the family scrapbook . . . Charity in action is easy to give. It has witnesses. Everyone sees it. Everyone...
...refitting job finished, the Carlins beat their way from London to the English Channel and drove across to Calais. They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...
...areas of arid Algeria have prospered more under French rule than the heavily populated coastal zone called the Kabylia, which lies between the cities of Algiers and Philippeville. Six months ago, however, France lost control of the Kabylia to bands of Algerian rebels, who took over the towns and even collected their own taxes...
Clearly, the two planes had struck at 21,000 ft. over the Painted Desert, the faster overtaking the slower. The dead, scattered out over 2,000 yards of arid land, had burned in the fires of the crash. Of 128 men, women and children aboard the two aircraft, none had survived. It was the worst commercial airline disaster in U.S. aviation history...