Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last installment has been paid on the $167 million indemnification to the former owners. And now Pemex is rapidly expanding into the profitable new fields of fertilizers, plastics and synthetic rubber-all from petrochemical byproducts of oil processing. From the jungles south of Veracruz to the arid, sun-baked flats of Reynosa just across the U.S. border, 18 petrochemical plants have gone up since 1959, and another 22 are abuilding. By 1966, says one Pemex official, petrochemicals will be the country's second biggest industry-surpassed only by oil itself...
...line like "Go down, Kennedy, way down in Georgia la-aa-and" is arid and unmoving, and certainly these songs include a lot that is unoriginal drivel. But the same can be said of any body of folk music. After time and taste sort out the songs that integration in the U.S. is marching to, one called Bull Connor's Jail is likely to last. Written last spring by Guy Carawan, a highly regarded California folk singer arrested at a Birmingham protest meeting, it truly says...
...reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most of all he hates modern man's "industrial civilization-a wilderness so arid and offensive that no organic life is possible within its limits." Sir Herbert indeed seems to have solved what George Orwell viewed as the crucial problem of the age: how to maintain the moral values of Christianity in the face of a widespread collapse of belief in the immortality...
...constructed elaborate canals to irrigate their fields with Colorado River water. Today, by way of a vast system of aqueducts, canals and tunnels, the Colorado quenches the megalopolitan thirst of Los Angeles and keeps a million acres of Southern California farm land green in what used to be an arid wasteland...
...swallowing Arizona's unused share of the river. In the decade or more that it will take Arizona to acquire facilities for diverting its full quota, California will have had time to complete the $1.7 billion Feather River project for bringing water from northern California to the arid south...