Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forget Thee. Why had Palestine, a narrow, 10,000-square-mile strip of desert land, become a concern to all men? In part the answer, as old as history, was the yearning of Israel for its promised land: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. . . If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. In part it was as old as man's desire to be free, now manifested in Arab determination to win independence. In part...
...would secretly have preferred the other's wife. So the thwarted, disgruntled husbands join the U.S. Navy (it is the first decade of the 19th Century). They spend most of the book and their own manhood outsmarting piratical Beys and Deys in Tripoli, fleeing over the Nubian desert disguised as Moors, tossing scoundrels to the Deep...
...quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi:"It's going to work all right, Robert, and I'm sure we won't be sorry for it." There is Harvard's Conant, stating that the use of atomic power for planes...
Local police quavered impotently as gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...
Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...