Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Offering the world a rare glimpse into the mores of the oil-rich desert kingdom, the Saudis confirmed that the executions had taken place, apparently last July. In their protest to the Foreign Office, the Saudis insisted the pair had not been married at all. Indeed, they stressed that marriage of a member of the royal family to a commoner is no crime in Saudi Arabia. The princess and her lover had been executed after a "sentence by an Islamic court for adultery?and for an adulterous act the law is death." According to the Saudi protest the British press...
White House felt that the CIA should have had some inkling of Sadat's decision to go to Israel; yet U.S. intelligence had warned that Sadat was frustrated and looking for a bold step. The CIA had satellite photos of a secret South African nuclear facility in the Kalahari Desert, but had not interpreted them. The White House was considerably embarrassed when it learned that the Soviets had already discovered the installation...
...aluminum drilling shafts that can be sunk deeper than heavier steel ones. They have developed turbo-drills that, they claim, bore three times as fast as conventional U.S. ones. But despite wages two to three times as high as the national average of $215 a month, workers desert the frozen Siberian expanses in droves...
...prime oddity in the whole snarl of attitudes is the fact that almost everybody develops perverse pride in abominable weather when it happens to be their own. Abroad, there are the desert tribes that profess to revere their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...
...years ago Vellucci was elected mayor by the council's liberals--who were assured by Vellucci that as mayor with the "swing vote," he would support them on a number of issues. Since Monday, many have been wondering whether or not he will now desert them...