Word: desert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...castle. Among the numerous ornaments was a church with cross, chimes and four singers. There was besides a beautiful fountain surrounded with cliffs of sapphire and other rare stones. Twenty living musicians played inside a huge pastry--a castle in the form of that of Lusignan. In an uninhabited desert a lifelike tiger fought with a great serpant. The third table showed a forest in India with rare beasts that moved about...
...YEAR 73 A.D. a group of Canaanites held down the last stronghold of resistance against the inevitably victorious legions of Rome. From their desert fortress, the defenders and their families, cognizant of the fact that the rest of their nation had fallen, watched the Roman soldiers encircle them. The situation was hopeless, they decided; even if they fought off this wave of soldiers another would come, and then another--as many as it would take--until the siege snuffed out the defenders. With all this in mind, the defenders of the embattled mountaintop called Masada decided that the only logical...
...dependent on Saudi good will, the Saudis are also inescapably tied to the U.S.-and the dollar. One tie is emotional: so many Saudi officials attended college on the U.S. West Coast that they are often referred to by Americans as "the California Mafia." At a desert feast during Blumenthal's visit last year, one sheikh wearing flowing robes and looking as if he had just returned from a raid on camelback leaned over to a member of the Secretary's party and whispered: "How did U.S.C. make out last night in the football game...
Will the leaders of the next oil superpower be wearing sombreros instead of desert kaffiyehs? Mexico became a net exporter of petroleum in 1975 as a result of discoveries of big deposits in the southern regions east of Veracruz, and since then, one leading U.S. energy analyst says enviously, "the Mexicans have been finding oil as fast as they put holes in the ground." Last week Jorge Diaz Serrano, head of Pemex, the government oil monopoly, announced the discovery of a new field that he says may contain up to 100 billion bbl.; that would be more than half...
...expected the other side to be easy. I also expected sun. Somewhere along the line I had been told that it was always sunny, a veritable desert, in the Owens Valley, just the other side of Trail Crest. But expectations are a mistake, especially when they are unreasonable and almost hallucinogenic. At the sign that pointed the summit direction, different and farther than the pass itself, there was still more uphill while at the apex between uphill and downhill there was no sun. Nor was there any sign of Adrian in front or Johnnie behind...