Word: desertic
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...Mellencamp] Farm Aid [Cheney] Operation Desert Storm...
...candidate for three months, sharing confidences, offering advice and proving their worthiness. They hadn't visited Bush in the Governor's Mansion and out at Dubya's new ranch near Waco, where the two had sat on the porch, taking in the endless view of the central Texas desert. And they had never bonded, as Bush and Cheney had, over their love of the West's open spaces, their shared conservative philosophy and their experiences in the oil business. No wonder it didn't take long for Bush to agree with what his father had told him more than once...
Well, not exactly. In Arizona, crazies already love "wasteland golf"--played entirely in the desert. Another variation, speed golf, requires players to cover a standard course as quickly as possible, by running between shots. One-club golf--a favorite Tiger Woods practice routine--mandates the use of a single club from tee to cup. Frisbee golf claims more than 16,000 players worldwide...
...minutes following the target's launch, the interceptor will receive updated maps as the mock warhead soars over the ocean. Then, like a thirsty traveler about to cross a desert, the interceptor will take a final gulp of data on its nemesis' whereabouts and expected route just before blasting off some 20 minutes after the California launch...
There is a scene in the movie of "The English Patient" in which the party is riding across the dunes of the Egyptian desert. All is laughter and good humor until, in the fraction of an instant, a flicker of inattention, the car's wheels turn wrong, the vehicle flips over, and the characters' universe is suddenly, irreversibly changed - all in that laughter-to-disaster instant...