Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convinced the others to let us off first at Teheran; but, after Rutger began extolling the virtues of one particularly fine American institution located in the desert outside Reno, our companions demanded a time-consuming detour to Nevada...
...been a year of jolting change for Mordechai Vanunu. Until last November he had worked as a technician in Israel's top-secret nuclear research center at Dimona in the Negev desert. Then Vanunu, 32, was dismissed from his job, ostensibly as part of a government cost-cutting move. He left Israel last spring on a vacation trip that took him to Greece, Bangkok and finally Sydney, Australia, where he reportedly converted to Christianity. Then he and a shadowy Colombian journalist hit upon a plan: they would sell Vanunu's inside account of Israel's nuclear defense program, never before...
Dahl, 6 ft., 6 in. tall, then found himself cramped in the cockpit of a Tiger Moth in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had enlisted in the R.A.F. After training, he was given an unfamiliar Gloster Gladiator and wrong directions to fly to a base in the Libyan Desert. He ran out of gas, crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft...
...Desert Breakdown, 1968" is a consummately terrifying story. It is about a couple on their way to California to start the proverbial new life, when their car breaks down. The conflict begins when the man decides to hitchhike to the nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...
...WOLFF STORIES seem at first discrete items of interest about a soldier, or a priest or the strangeness of people who live in the desert. But they bloom from the particular to the universal. Listen to the socially marginalized protagonist of "Soldier...