Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust storm: a violent, dust-laden whirlwind moving across an arid region. The air is very hot, excessively dry, and attended by high electrical tension...
Silent Spires. The traditional route to Everest is through the arid, treeless plains of Communist-controlled Tibet. The old route leads to the north face of the mountain, where, also in 1924, Britain's Dr. T. H. Somervell and Lieut. Colonel E. F. Norton were a mere 900 ft. from the top, the highest point man has reached-and returned alive...
Four hundred miles down the coast live the seven Trucial Sheiks. There are fishtail Cadillacs for them, but no free schools for their 80,000 people. The sheikdoms-6,000 square miles of low, arid barrens fringing the southern approach to the Persian Gulf-look as though God here carried out a great scorched-earth policy. They typify the Persian Gulf without oil -nothing but sand, rock-bottom Arabs and hard-living sheiks...
...hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking too loudly...
Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...