Word: desert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word has it in Pampa that there's a promised land at the edge of this desert--California, where work is plentiful and the fertile valleys are filled with citrus groves voluptuous with fruit. California--"a place for some real nice livin'!" Woody, who never was able to stay still in one place too long, decides to make the pilgrimage and, sneaking out on his family, he hits the road. (Significantly, in the chapter of his book recounting his departure for California, Guthrie fails to mention his family--and his desertion of them...
...engineering the White House plumbers' break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971 after Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers. Ehrlichman, formerly Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser, is serving time at Safford Prison, a cluster of cement-block buildings in the Arizona desert, and could be eligible for parole in April...
...danger, let the souls of the dead rest in peace a little dryer." Other writers suggested bans on selling and filling water beds, using Jacuzzi baths and sprinkling golfing greens and tennis courts. One advocated cutting back on water-guzzling yard plants like camellias and azaleas; cacti and other desert flora could be planted instead...
...world to the Red Sea port of Jidda in six months to a year. If the mountain of ice was large enough-say 85 million tons-and wrapped in insulating plastic, it would shrink by no more than 20% along the way, providing enough water to the desert kingdom to make the venture economically feasible...
...Desert Valley packaging company buys fruit from Coachella Growers, which employ 450 workers represented...