Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jordan River Valley in Palestine, where the desert could be made to bloom, might be a good example. A survey would be made, a plan outlined, and then industry, agriculture and labor would be put to work to bring the plan about...
...they agreed on a six-point agenda, and approved an impressive armistice preamble in which they agreed to stop fighting, and to respect each other's territory. Then they settled down to tackle the prickly questions of armistice frontiers, withdrawals and reduction of their armies in the Negeb desert. To give the Egyptians a prod, the Israelis announced that they were already holding armistice talks with the Lebanese, and were giving up control of Lebanese villages across the border...
Through the last weeks of the campaign, Israeli cities were full of blaring loudspeakers and glaring posters. Café campaigners revived an old joke: "Eight men were stranded on a desert island. The two Britons did not speak to one another for six months because nobody introduced them. The two Scotsmen formed a Robert Burns Society. The two Irishmen killed each other fighting. And the two Jews organized five political parties...
...Hooper) diminishing audience, Allen said: "[Hooper] calls up a few people . . . and tells you how many listeners you have in the whole 48 states. It's like multiplying the bottom of a bird cage and telling you how many grains of sand there are in the Sahara Desert...
Siren of Atlantis (United Artists) may bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...