Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sullivan tried to organize the maids and janitors last fall, but only a small percentage were willing to desert the HUERA. Sullivan attributed this mainly to the HUERA's exceptionally low dues of 50 cents per month; the AFL charges $2 per month...
...When the text of Stalin's statement became available (several days before the Acheson and Stevenson pronouncements), it was found to contain the usual violent attacks on the U.S., plus a call to America's allies to desert...
...Algeria (pop. 9,000,000) : an area more than three times the size of Texas, mostly desert. Algeria is now an integral part of metropolitan France, has 30 members in the French National Assembly, 14 members in the Senate, and 18 counselors in the Assembly of the French Union, which meets at Versailles. There is universal suffrage for all over 21, except for Moslem women, who by tradition take no part in public affairs...
...worst confused plant of the Bible is probably the rose. The flower mentioned in Isaiah 35:1 ("and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose") must have been a bulbous plant, probably a narcissus; the original Hebrew word for it means "bulb." Other "roses" were oleanders, anemones, tumbleweeds or crocuses. The biblical "Rose of Sharon" was not the modern rose of Sharon (a kind of hibiscus introduced from China), but probably a tulip...
...Moldenkes give up guessing about some of the plants of the Bible. The "hyssop that groweth out of the wall" might be any one of many wall-growing plants. The manna that fed the Children of Israel has been variously explained as a gum that forms on desert trees, as algae that grow overnight on dew-covered ground, as a lichen that blows around the desert, even as migrating quail. The Moldenkes have confidence in none of these theories. They think that manna was a legendary product with no botanical origin. The Children of Israel had no theory about...