Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting His Fate. At the end of his rounds Mysovsky is dog-tired and depressed, stops off at the recreation hall for a drink, and promptly gets plastered. While drunk he promises the workers 30% of the harvest instead of the regulation 10%, arid lo and behold, with that incentive, they are out in the fields early next day. Next morning, Mysovsky wakes up with a hangover, rubs his eyes at the sight of workers' kerchiefs bobbing like daisies in the fields. Then he remembers...
...WATER. Every part of the country will have to watch its water supply but for different reasons. In the humid East and Pacific Northwest, there will be enough water for all reasonable demands. The main problem will be to keep it from being wasted or polluted. In the arid West, where irrigation agriculture absorbs nearly all the available water, cities and industries can continue to grow only by taking water away from a few farmers...
...long run. Iran hopes to build 13 more dams to irrigate much of the semi-arid land currently being handed out to peasants under the Shah's big agrarian reform program, which was approved 1,000-to-1 in a national referendum in January. With the nation behind him, the Shah has pushed steadily ahead with his land split-up, despite loud outcries from the big landowners. A few weeks ago, one outraged group, the nomadic Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesmen, who herd cattle in the Southern province of Ears, registered its protest by attacking Iranian police posts, killing...
...would have done with the single title "Arabia!"--that is, it sets the scene, and sets the scene, and sets the scene. And not all the perfumes of Alec Guinness, who nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...
...gallons. This is enough for a city of 4,000,000 people, and the cost is just about what New York City pays for water brought down by gravity from the rainy Catskill Mountains only 70 miles away. The price remains prohibitive for irrigation, but cities in arid districts are glad to pay even more to slake their thirst...