Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From that simple situation-an impossible but inevitable marriage-unfolds The Pallisers' intricate plot. Glencora sparkles with good spirits and impetuosity. Plantagenet, admirably played by Philip Latham, has a manner so arid that he seems to exhale dust, like an overloaded vacuum cleaner, every time he speaks. Gradually, however, they grow-and grow believably -into love. Glencora gives up any notion of running away with the scoundrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Plantagenet, for his part, relinquishes his dream of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can take her to the Continent. Eventually, however, he does become Chancellor, then Prime...
...Paris to continue my studies. Gradually, my slight interest in photography grew into a burning passion. Suddenly, I realized that, in spite of successfully passing all theoretical exams, I had not talent for the mechanical side of engineering. All my creative urges were stifled while I pursued my rather arid studies. At that time the social status of a photographer was not much higher than the status of a barber or waiter. My decision to change professions made my mother very unhappy. My professor of mathematics told me; "Halsman, in a few months you can have your engineering degree...
With the curse of racism beginning to lift, one can perceive a kind of liberality. Notes Sheldon Hackney, president of Tulane University: "Traditionally, the South has been quite tolerant. Localities tolerate the village atheist arid the lonely radical. The family tolerates. The South, more than other places, honors the strong individual stand, the person who says what he believes...
Communist countries are almost always disjointed by bureaucratic stupidity. The most frequently cited example is agriculture. It is true that the Soviet Union suffers from natural handicaps, including bad weather and arid soil. Even so, the basic problem is its communal farming system, which fails to provide the farmers with sufficient motivation. The dismal results are well known; Moscow must buy huge tonnages of grain from the profit-seeking farmers...
...Martian life is discovered, Project Scientist Gerald Soffen speculates, it will probably be quite different from anything found on earth. Martian organisms are likely to be microscopic in size. They would also have to be capable of extracting life-giving moisture from the planet's arid soil and atmosphere. Soffen believes they might do this by means of some sort of biological pump or natural siphon. "Martian critters have had billions of years to adapt," he explains. Somewhere in the process of evolution they must have had to face-and overcome-the need for water. "So what they developed...