Word: aridity
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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...
...King in a sitting position. The Minister of Cults has already summoned the nation's provincial governors. In turn, the governors summoned the district and village chiefs. Thus the word was passed to the most remote Laotian tribesmen, from the mountainous northern border with China to the arid southern plains where tigers roam...
...Robbe-Grillet, is an object worshiper who would rather describe a love seat than a love scene; yet this is not consistently reflected in the novels of his disciples. They do have some common characteristics, notably a way of writing in flat tones of a world that is bleak arid joyless, where people lead lives hollow of meaning, sensing dimly-or failing to sense-that they are victims of existence. Very little happens; predicaments are preferred to events, and orderly progression of time, clear distinction between reality and hallucination are likely to be missing...