Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe...
...past 19 months, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser has lavished ill-spared funds and fighting men on the backward, arid republic of Yemen, where a revolutionary leader backed by Nasser is struggling against the stubborn remnants of the ousted royal regime. Nasser has committed 36,000 Egyptian troops - one-third of his entire army - but the royalists still control the countryside, penning the revolutionaries in a few garrisons. Last week, paying his first visit to Yemen since the 1962 coup, Nasser was plainly anxious to decide whether to cut his losses or to continue the costly desert...
...been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues to bother the Mexicans, and Lopez Mateos gently prodded Johnson to devise a speedy solution. It concerns the Colorado River, which rolls through the arid U.S. Southwest and down across the line into Mexico...
...discussion after Khrushchev had concluded a most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
Against Columbia, Harvard raced in front, 7 to 0, but for the rest of the first half they looked awful. During one arid five-minute stretch, the team scored one field goal. Fine rebounding by Barry Williams and Bob Inman, coupled with a lousy performance by the Lions, enabled the Crimson to take out a 25-34 halftime lead...