Word: deserta
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...choice is clear; there seems to be sufficient time for American society to make its choice. True, rationing, cutbacks, allocations are unpleasant to contemplate. But so is the image of a new America Deserta burned dry by its own voracity. Whatever the decision is, it cannot be wholly judged at this time. It remains for posterity to record whether the epoch of the energy crisis was a time of catastrophic status quo or a period of grace...
...this great big beautiful $10 million spectacle-produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of the guerrilla genius of World War I, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of a peculiar young Englishman who became the guerrilla genius of World War 1, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the landscape in which the story was filmed, by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...recently remarked that if Arab borders had been drawn sensibly and in the Arab interest rather than where Europeans had drawn them, rewarding this prince and that sheik, there would be four natural Arab nations: 1) Maghreb in North Africa, 2) the land of the Nile Valley, 3) Arabia Deserta, including not only Saudi Arabia but Yemen and all the little trucial sheikdoms, 4) the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Mediterranean at Lebanon to the Persian Gulf, and including Syria and Iraq in a unity of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys...
Creator of the birds is Dorothy Doughty (rhymes with doubty), eldest daughter of the late great Charles Montagu (Travels in Arabia Deserta) Doughty (TIME, Sept. 6). Shy, 51 and a spinster, Ceramist Doughty lives in Cornwall, England. Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon's Birds of America, is now England's only fashioner in porcelain of the birds...