Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road is a ribbon along the fair, azure sea. It wanders past graves inscribed "This is hallowed ground. They died in the service of their country." It twists up arid escarpments. It streaks, hot and straight, for miles across the desert sands...
Stephen Spender's Ruins arid Visions ($2) gave proof that war and writing are by no means necessarily incompatible in a civil ized nation. Other notable volumes were The Witness Tree ($2) by Robert Frost, dean of U.S. poets, and Person, Place, and Thing ($2) by Karl Jay Shapiro...
Beautiful but arid, she has a strange attraction: almost every dominant power in the history of the world has, at one time or another, possessed...
...officer; Mily Balakirev, a professional musician. In opposition to the international style of Tchaikovsky, "The Five" believed that the source of Russian music should be Russian-folk songs and church music. Igor Stravinsky (Petrouchka, The Fire Bird) continued this nationalist tradition, though he later abandoned it for severe and arid abstractions...
Down this road, 200 arid miles through nearly uninhabited, semidesert country akin to southern California and New Mexico, I went in a car supplied by Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's Sino-U.S. headquarters. An officer gravely snowed me how to use a Tommy-gun in case I met Burmese traitors...