Word: crisscrossings
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...changed. The land remains, the rains still fall, the rivers flow in the same measure. But under the pounding of warriors and nomads, the ancients' brilliantly intricate system of water conservation disintegrated. Hulagu Khan- and his Mongol hordes rode out of Central Asia, smashed Mesopotamia's elaborate crisscross of canals and dehydrated the Garden of Eden. The waiting Bedouin nomads advanced into the Sinai and Negeb like locusts when Roman and Byzantine authority declined. They demolished vaults, run-off canals and 300-ft. reservoirs. Their goats and camels pushed over terraces, broke fencing, ate the water-hugging groves...
Wherever jet planes crisscross the skies, the U.S. is acknowledged to be strong. Wherever dollars go, it is acknowledged to be rich. No lucky by-blows of fortune, this strength and wealth are products of a national character. In recent decades, the national character has not been so plain as its products. That is why the U.S., more than it is understood, is feared for its strength and courted for its money...
Died. Dr. Walter Ernest ("Doc") Meanwell, 69, longtime University of Wisconsin basketball coach (1911-17, 1920-34), who first developed the short pass, the crisscross, the dribble-and-block, to razzle-dazzle the opposition and help his teams win four Western Conference championships, share the title to four more; of cancer; in Madison...
...century enthroned the individual but not the person. An individual can be a thing, as for instance, an individual tree; but in virtue of his rational soul, a person is more than a thing. Yet the depersonalized view of man gained ascendancy, and generated a society which was a crisscross of individual egotisms and in which each man sought...
Slicing through the cloud-mantled mountains and the coastal rain forests, through cactus-fenced pastures and corn-clad canyons, four major paved highways now march from the U.S. border to Mexico City. New roads, rebuilt railroads and oil pipelines now crisscross the countryside. Some sleepy towns of yesterday have become buzzing 20th century cities. Colonial Salamanca, seat of the government's big new oil refinery, looks like a Texas oil town by night, with its orange flares glowing over pipes and vents...