Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep the rebellion alight. Last winter the Israeli authorities threatened to demolish his family's home if he did not turn himself in. He complied and spent 8 1/2 months under administrative detention. At one point, he and two of his brothers shared a tent in the harsh desert camp at Ketziot...
...feel the Holy Spirit is leading us to the desert before we return home," said Dignity's national president James Bussen, a Chicago management consultant. San Francisco, he declared, "was the last bastion of the liberal wall to fall." Not quite. Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland, Sacramento and San Antonio, at least, still allow Dignity to meet in church, though Rome's pressure on them is sure to grow. A chapter in Dayton also sponsors public Masses, but it has agreed to accept church teaching...
...Upon publication," the publicity blurb wretchedly announces, "Edward Abbey will tour the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco . . . New York and Washington." Why wretchedly? Because Abbey loyalists don't like to imagine their prophet -- that grand old desert solitary, that North American champion of the ideological beer-can toss -- getting anywhere near Los Angeles, New York or those other evil megaburbs. Somebody might package his crankiness for distribution in health-food stores, or subject him to relentless understanding on public...
...decades ago, the author began working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that wistful novel of eco-banditry The Monkey Wrench Gang...
...with the export of hardwoods, used for the production of everything from dyes to ships. These days trees are the peasants' only real cash crop. A muddy brown ring surrounds Haiti's coast as the topsoil erodes and dissolves into the turquoise Caribbean, leaving behind what amounts to tropical desert. Reforestation efforts are outpaced by the country's demand for charcoal, a critical fuel in the urban areas...