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Word: desart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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Usage:

...from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds would not fly over "this horrible desart for fear of the noisome exhalations that rise from this vast body of dirt and nastiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Swamps & Split Levels | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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