Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million acre reservation in western Colorado, they have put little faith in the Great White Father in Washington. They have reasons: after the Indians agreed to drop other claims in return for the land, the white man grabbed the reservation back and herded most of the tribesmen into an arid corner of Utah...
...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...
...doubted whether it was wise to try to keep 7,000,000 former Nazi Party members (altogether some 25 million people, counting dependents) "outside the community, or outcasts from it." He was prepared to plead for forgiveness: "We would indeed leave arid the fields in which the Germans must plant the seeds of right thinking if those fields were parched by the withering materialism of revenge...
Both buildings had been designed by a distinguished international team of architects, headed by Wallace K. Harrison (who helped plan Rockefeller Center). When finished, the two would make a dramatic contrast, for while the Secretariat's skyscraper was high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof and sides of a low tarpaulin stretched from four corner posts-a difficult and perhaps inefficient construction to handle in stone. As ARCHITECTURAL FORUM put it, the Assembly building "marked an architectural shift-from emphasis on 'function' and structural logic to emphasis on form and the logic...
Behind the Screen. Then the Congressmen went after facts, and what they found told an entirely different story about the domain of old Joe Di Giorgio, the Sicilian immigrant who had drilled wells, laid miles of underground pipe and invested $9.7 million to turn a plot of arid land into a production line of agriculture (TIME, March 11, 1946). Di Giorgio wages had always been as good as any in the valley (currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were...