Word: desertic
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...zeal for social orderliness, often kept Graham on the sidelines, particularly during the civil rights movement. Though he insisted on racially integrated seating at his revival meetings, Graham says Martin Luther King Jr. himself advised in a lengthy talk that "if you go to the streets, your people will desert you, and you won't have the opportunity to have these integrated crusades." But then and ever since, he has been criticized for his role. "He should have been more deeply involved earlier on," argues Dean Joseph Hough Jr. of Vanderbilt University's Divinity School. "Had he been, he could...
...ideas from all over the world, the individual using its resources is completely alone. In the basement of the Science Center, blank faces stare for hours into the computer screens. Occasionally, a humorous message forces a chuckle from one of the terminals, an oasis of human emotion amid a desert of android typists...
...gusty winds from the desert, a series of devastating fire storms -- some of them suspected of having been started by arsonists -- cut through the hills and canyons of Southern California, scorching more than 186,000 acres and ravaging about 700 buildings. President Clinton declared six counties disaster areas...
...would fail inspection. Every year for five months virtually no rain falls. And every year from mid-September to November the weather system overhead jerks into reverse -- instead of blowing from the Pacific landward, it blows westward, from Utah to the sea. The winds superheat in the Mojave Desert. Then, in hundreds of canyons leading coastward from the mountains, they can accelerate up to 75 m.p.h. If California is lucky, the Santa Anas, as they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread . . ." If the state...
...Gusting desert winds were responsible for the spread of the fires Wednesday. But yesterday, calmer winds and cooler temperatures helped the nearly 7,000 firefighters beat down the blazes. But forecasters predict conditions will worsen when gusty winds return tomorrow...