Word: brackishness
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...energy that heats the homes of the Paris suburb of Melun (pop. 42,000) comes from a highly unusual source: a natural underground reservoir of hot brackish water located more than a mile underneath the town. French engineers boast that the system for tapping geothermal energy is the first of its kind. What makes it unique, they say, is the fact that the water is piped back into the ground for reheating, which means that Melun's subterranean furnace could keep working almost indefinitely...
...temperatures that soar past 130° by day and drop below freezing at night. He describes the stunning beauty of desert sunsets and the soporific, swaying movement of the camel. He can make a reader comfortably fixed with a Scotch in his hand share the blessed glee of finding brackish water dotted with camel dung that is worth more than gold or oil in a sea of sand...
...stories. What has moved Nick to make a fishing trip, alone, in Michigan country he has not seen for years, is never hinted at. The standard suggestion, a reasonable one, is that he has been to war. Perhaps, on the other hand, he has merely been living a brackish city life. No matter. Nick fishes deliberately, and deliberately does not think of where he has been, and the story is fine...
South of Sehjra, Indian armored units have been plowing through sand across the West Pakistan border, taking hundreds of square miles of desert and announcing the advance of their troops to places that apparently consist of two palm trees and a shallow pool of brackish water. Among the enemy equipment reported captured: several camels. The reason behind this rather ridiculous adventure is the fear that Pakistan will try to seize large tracts of Indian territory to hold as ransom for the return of East Bengal. That now seems an impossibility with Bangladesh an independent nation, but India wants to have...
...propelling its plume to beautify the skyline, the city board of health complained that the river water was polluted and thus the fountain was contaminating the air. At considerable expense, that was fixed, but now Delacorte has learned that New York State wants the fountain moved because it sprays brackish water on a part of Welfare Island where a park and plantings are planned. But Delacorte, at 76, is not discouraged. He still finds it worthwhile for men of means to "give things of beauty" to the city. He has offered to build a 125-ft. stainless-steel obelisk...