Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow splotches of California's rugged Sierra Nevada range. In this country, pioneers had baked-or frozen-as they struggled westward a century before. Eastbound Dave...
...from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history it was only a day: the monuments to the might of Assur-nasir-pal II fell before a Babylonian revolt, a Median invasion, and the scouring sands of the desert...
...clocks go off in a seven-room apartment in Manhattan's East 90s, which Tanner, his wife Louise and their two children (boy and girl) will desert in the fall for a town house. Tanner is masterminding the rebuilding of this now-gutted dream house: the brownstone front will be limestone, the ceiling in the maid's sitting room will be knocked out to create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker...
...coming in faster than the nation can find a way to spend it, is buying a better life for every one of the 60,000 men, women and children in the Sultanate. "You rub your eyes and begin to count the miracles that are taking place in this Green Desert of Borneo," cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Paul Hurmuses after a visit to Brunei last week, "and you find there is no end to them...
Last week the government said that "several of the most prominent U.S. oil companies are negotiating with the French for Sahara concessions." Texas Independent N. Bunker Hunt, son of H. L. Hunt, and Houston's Texas Gulf Producing Co. are dickering for a piece of the desert. Cities Service Co. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) say they are "interested" in making a Sahara oil deal. The five-year leases that French oil companies took in 1952 will expire this September, and some 27 million acres of potential oil lands that these companies did not exploit will...