Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created Jordan. He whacked an elbow-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire and handed it to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said, for the Emir's fighting services to Britain in the desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha-known affectionately by his Bedouin warriors as Abu Huneik (Father...
...Israelis still cannot speak, read or write Hebrew, and it will be a long time before a lad from Morocco living in the arid emptiness of the rocky Hebron foothills wins the same opportunity as the boy from Rehavia, Jerusalem's swank suburb. Last week, calling again on the army to help deal with the social problems of consolidating the new state, Ben-Gurion urged that the conscription period be increased by one year to 3½, the last year to be spent establishing new agricultural settlements in the Negev...
Flood control is vital in California, where the nightmare is water-too much in the rainy north, too little in the arid south. Key to California's burgeoning economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley and the water-starved cities of the booming south. But no flood-control program is watertight, and California's is far from complete. Last week, in the wake of northern floods that cost $170 million and 74 lives, Californians were grateful for the dams they have, but bitterly regretted...
...charge came first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative...
...Hollywood, Cinemogul Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, admitted that TV "has given us tremendous competition and is rapidly arid vastly improving, with such presentations as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, Peter Pan and The Devil's Disciple, which the people get gratis...