Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...
Followers of Communist Oppositionist Jay Lovestone yelped that they had been sold out to the most reactionary elements in the union, threatened to desert en masse. Meantime Henry Ford's unionized competitors resigned themselves to battle not with a union but between two unions claiming the same name, same contracts, same prerogatives under the Wagner...
...When Mrs. Wilson "in desperation" asked her husband to accept the Hitchcock reservations to the Treaty of Versailles in order to get it ratified by the Senate and have "this awful thing settled," he replied: "Little girl, don't you desert me. . . . Better a thousand times to go down fighting than to dip your colours to dishonorable compromise...
...they have held for over twelve hundred years. Deplorable as may be the persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed philosophy of life. Even if no displacement of population is intended, a minority of less than one-third of the inhabitants should not expect to exercise governmental control...
...adventurers. His Indians are mostly beggars and hangers-on, a menace only to horses, cows and the pioneers' imaginations. The real enemies are cholera, diarrhea, dust, heat, rivers, white bandits, traders, quarreling among themselves. Out of jealousy, the caravan captain ruthlessly abandons a middleaged, kindly schoolteacher in the desert. But he is efficient, and he does not, like many another captain, abandon women and the sick because they cannot keep up. The romance between Nancy Ann and a hard-muscled "recruit" picked up along the way is as earthy-gritty as their food during a dust storm...