Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June and I have been fighting for almost 40 years. There are historical reasons why our ancestors decided to build the Jewish state in Palestine and not in California. We're not here just because we thought the sand of the Negev or the arid land of old Palestine was a place where we could drill for oil or could find silver. To be honest, I used to go to San Diego quite a lot before I was plunged back into politics, and I always used to say, "Why, why, did our ancestors not go to San Diego...
...reviewing thrillers is to be elusive. Tell the beginning but never tell the middle and the end. In the beginning, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood) is a guileful craftsman of stage thrillers who has a writer's block. It's a fairly long block, almost as wide and arid as the Sahara. For 17 years he has failed to concoct a Broadway...
...visibility is often limited to a few yards: one stick recently ambushed a guerrilla group that had been sleeping less than 50 yards away. In the present summer season, rains flood the rivers and the jungle trails that make up the infiltration routes. By July, the middle of the arid winter season, the water holes will have dried up; the soldiers will have to quench their thirst at the stagnant pools buffaloes use for wallowing. Ticks, fleas and horseflies are constant irritants, and at night elephant herds have been known to lumber blindly through troop positions. But the main hazard...
That does not mean he has gone soft. A friend calls him "the velvet hammer," and Director Robert Aldrich says: "Behind that false humor arid false modesty is a bright man who's paid his dues. People think he's Charley Charm, but that's only part of it. Burt is a strongwilled, self-centered businessman; he does what serves Burt, and he should...
...theory, an argument could perhaps be made for a homelands policy?but not as the South African government has designed it. If every black in South Africa were to move to his ancestral homeland, 70% of the population would be packed into 13% of the land, much of it arid and unprofitable. Only one homeland, Basotho-QwaQwa, is composed of a single piece of land. The others are broken into two or more parts, surrounded by white South Africa. KwaZulu was in 29 pieces five years ago, but eventually will be consolidated into six. Homeland leaders are demanding more land...