Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into tankers just as Spindletop and the Auto Age gave the U.S. oil industry its biggest boost. He became a tanker captain for _ the fledgling Texas Co., later built up its tanker fleet and ran Texaco's overseas sales. He became chairman of the board in 1935 arid made deals all over the world to increase Texaco's own oil production...
...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...
Hungry and cold in the streets, she was befriended by a streetwalker, and by a drug addict who introduced Kiki (aged 16) to cocaine. A pimp seduced her, beat her arid threw her out because she "wasn't good for anything." One night a girl friend told her that there were "nice suet cakes and tea to drink" at the house of a Russian living in the Cite Falguiére. The girls stood shivering on the doorstep, afraid to knock. A neighboring painter, as poor and as cold as themselves, but a man of talent, took them...
...trouble when some of his fiscal surgeons decided to take $200 million out of the Interior Department's $235 million reclamation budget. To Easterners, "reclamation" is a fancy word for pork-barreling. To Westerners, who see federally-financed dams and canals as the only means of developing vast, arid stretches of their land, reclamation is what the Government exists to do. Last week this potent political fact was forcefully explained to Detroiter Dodge by his Western colleague, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay of Oregon. "Broth is never eaten as hot as it's cooked," philosophized McKay later...
...Vatican asked Roman Catholics to pray for the soul of a man unofficially described as "one of the greatest persecutors of the Catholic Church and of religion in general since the birth of Christ. [He] has arrived at the end of his arid life and must account to the Almighty for his actions. One cannot feel anything but profound commiseration...