Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once complained: "Oh, if only Taft knew the joys of leadership!" Woodrow Wilson was dogmatic, inscrutably secretive and of limited vitality. His mind was second rate and his style of writing "synthetic Burke."¶ Calvin Coolidge was "arid," a kind of puritan, the sort of man who would make a speech "about George Washington as a businessman...
...First. Almost half a century later, the war Gary saw seems primitive. It was fought over a stunning mountainous terrain, so arid and devoid of shelter that the troops were almost constantly exposed. Cannon and shells were hauled by hand to summits where only the native goats were at home, and since the Montenegrin army had no stretcher bearers, the casualties often simply crawled off to die. The troops were spectacularly brave, attacking with gusto at point-blank range and accepting decimation with stoicism bordering on indifference. Before one attack, volunteers rushed forward to blow the Turkish wire with bombs...
Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...vote for outright independence, it was a warning that their victory would not give them the whole cake; the oil regions and rich farm areas would in all likelihood stay in French hands, leaving the apostles of independence only the Moslem-dominated areas, which are mostly desert, mountains, and arid land...
...with 13 games left to play, Tal led by 6½ to 4½-And in the ninth game of the match, Botvinnik won only by adopting Tal's tactics: he sacrificed a pawn without apparent reason-and thereby surprised and confused the challenger who specializes in surprise arid confusion...