Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...
...history of the end of the Prussian order (since confiscated by the Gestapo), dabbled in local agrarian politics, became president of the Danzig Senate, pondered upon that passage in the writings of the late great Austrian poet, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which describes the growing revolt against Europe's arid intellectualism: "The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a Conservative Revolution, on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known...
Over 1,000 tons of bombs had been unloaded on and around this old shell of a town. Very few of its once neat white walls still stood intact. In the harbor the skeletons of Italian and British ships lay half-sunk, scuppers awash. The arid country around town was pocked with bomb holes and tank traps. The place looked dead, but inside the shell was a personality. Here, in a perpetual front line, a division of Imperials lived like happy caricatures of civilized...
...three entered the gates of the air station, the machine tool was still abuilding. On the right were dozens of pearl-grey barracks with colonial facades, long mess halls and groundschool buildings; on the left, mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms or bright whites. That first...
...leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...