Word: arid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year over North Africa) was convinced that Mollet has never been the same since his trip to Algiers last February. There Mollet had been pelted by irate French colons, and in Mendès' view he had since given top much weight to their demands for repression arid too little to matching this suppression with a dramatic-enough program of political and economic reforms for the Moslems...
Moved one day by intimations of mortality, that bibulous philosopher, W. C. Fields, looked back on his arid boyhood home and chose his modest alternative to death: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia...
...vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on a project to divert the Yenisei into a vast inland sea for irrigating arid Kazakstan) saw a new day dawning...
Modern poetry is the sick man of the arts. Precious, arid, obscure, it sometimes seems too feeble and withdrawn to be nursed back to life. Indeed, modern poetry has played the game of ten little Indians with its readers for so long that in recent years neither London nor New York could claim a magazine devoted to first-class poetry. Now each may stake half a claim to a new bimonthly: Poetry London-New York. Price: 75? a copy. Stamped on the sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder...
Lists of irregular verbs rarely stimulate either teachers or students. Yet, in order to restrict the fellowship of educated men to those acquainted with a foreign language, Harvard must require students to take a large number of arid courses which deal with little more than verbs, syntax, and whatnot...