Word: aridity
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...husband Jean-Marc, a poet. The couples talk shop: How many past lovers and mistresses has each had, and how will the affair between Due and Lucie go off? It goes off in a burst of Sagantic frenzy in the last 20 pages of fête. "How arid," says the enraptured Lucie. No one is hurt. no one is moved, and Duc is soon back at the villa cleverly composing the first paragraph of his unblocked novel...
...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
...Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara's edge, where by day nomadic cattle herders bow to Mecca and muffle their faces against the sun and grit-filled harmattan winds with robes that keep out the bitter chill when the sun goes down...
...cordiality was not for love of Stroessner. It came, rather, from 1) the historic tug of influence by Argentina and Brazil over the landlocked neighbor between them, arid 2) a hardheaded decision by both against helping Fidel Castro-style rebels seize power in Paraguay...
...lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness was its length: as much dance drama as ballet (a British habit), it was studded with arid passages of exaggeratedly old-fashioned pantomime. Moreover, the fragmentary score by German Modernist Hans Werner Henze-sometimes lushly impressionistic, sometimes brassily strident-added little to the wispy plot. As Romeo and Juliet does with Ulanova, Ondine moves only with Fonteyn...