Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was widespread dissatisfaction with the established churches, widespread social unrest. Central Europe broke out into a rash of mystical, often non-sacramental sects whose members strove (usually under fierce persecution) to recover the spirit and the practices of the primitive Christian church. In the midst of arid orthodoxy, they sought catacombs of the spirit where direct communion with God might be achieved, usually with little or no intercession by clergy...
...last of its $652,500 appropriation and the fifth extension of its life expire in January. Though it has seven other members, its moving spirit has always been the strident demagogue from Texas. Last week New Jersey's chunky, ruddy J. Parnell Thomas, the ranking Republican Dies Committeeman arid no more ardent a defender of minority rights than Dies himself, proposed that the committee become a permanent House institution. But there was grave doubt that anybody but Demagogue Dies could persuade reluctant fellow Congressmen to keep on financing investigations into the "unAmerican activities" of Walter Winchell...
...general these people lead a hard life at Short Creek. . . . Frequent flights over . . . their arid and unproductive farms leave me with the conviction that any man who keeps even one family from starving under those conditions would not have the energy to be sexually acrobatic...
Fate. No mere whim but something more like destiny had whisked the Generals from Cairo to the arid heart of the Middle East. Aboard the transport they had stowed 3,000 lb. of pretty things: automatic rifles, ammunition, blowtorches, helmets, other samples of freshly arrived Lend-Lease for Ibn Saud...
Moscow press demands for the second front dropped off abruptly as the conference opened. By now every major detail of what the U.S. and British armies can do arid will do in Europe must have been fully explained to the Russians. But both U.S. and Russian sources in Washington predicted closer military collaboration by Soviet leaders with the Anglo-U.S. Combined Chiefs of Staff...