Word: aridities
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...wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast...
...Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters gave further evidence of the unevenness of his poetic gift and of his fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...
While the Committee was thrashing its scheme out Italy's Premier heard they were going to offer him two strips of territory in Ethiopia's more arid areas. "It looks as if the League thinks I am a collector of deserts!" joked the Dictator with one of the few Englishmen he likes, the London Daily Mail's Ward Price. "The plan is not only unacceptable but derisory...
...waist, a dressing-gown thrown across his shoulders, his head bound in vinegar-soaked muslin, fighting arthritis, eczema and the great heat. His flesh corrupting, his blood poisoned, death was only a matter of weeks. His lead-colored features were swollen and disfigured with sores; his eyes, bloodshot arid yellow-grey, were nevertheless serene. He spoke to her gently. Awaiting her opportunity, she gave him details of an uprising in Caen. When he pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight...
...life Mary grasped at straws, and as her love affairs were tragedies of unfulfillment, so her ill-organized conspiracies and arid plots were the politics, not of passion, but of despair...