Word: aridity
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Although Khrushchev valued Gromyko's diplomatic experience, he could not resist teasing him, often calling him an arid bureaucrat. "Look at that," Khrushchev would say, nodding toward Gromyko and smiling. "How young Andrei Andreyevich looks." (He really did look very young for his years.) "He doesn't have a single gray hair. It's obvious he just sits in a cozy little place and drinks tea." These jests were not at all pleasing to Gromyko, but he always managed to force a smile...
...people, mostly from Tigre and Welo, have been moved. According to guerrilla spokesmen, those taken for resettlement are often ripped away from their families. When they arrive in the south, the refugees reportedly discover few reception areas, little shelter or medicine and scant food. The newcomers, residents of the arid highlands, are also susceptible to diseases of the low- lying south like malaria and amoebic dysentery...
...perhaps 3,400 years ago, about the time King Tutankhamun was on the throne in Egypt. The discovery, announced in Washington last week by the National Geographic Society, which helped sponsor Bass's expedition, is located near the town of Kas, less than 100 yards off the jagged, arid southern Turkish coastline and more than 145 ft. below the surface. The excavation began in earnest last summer...
...Central America is not certain. Where Central America is concerned, a debate rages between those who argue that the chief cause of Third World insurgencies is economic and social injustice, and those who argue that it is interference by the Soviets or their surrogates. Nothing is more futile or arid than this argument. Obviously both forces are at work, and both must be coped with. The Reagan Administration has balanced the two approaches-the stress on force and the stress on development-more successfully than it is generally given credit...
...arrival of this lubricious pair just now is a coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend. In the main, Hollywood pictures since the mid-'70s have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their...