Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More for the Desert. The nation took its first step toward creation of a national park system in 1872. In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground." Thus was created Yellowstone, still the largest (3,450 square miles), as well as the oldest of the national parks, and visited in the last 84 years by an army of 19 million. But the wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country...
...most Australians, "humpty doo" means "all right, everything is O.K." But to the hardy residents of tiny Humpty Doo in Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles...
...companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles from the sapphires of the sea and the golden desert of the sands, and the sunshine of eternity rang around them . . . For an age-one lonely, solitary, divine and everlasting moment-the full impact of the terrible destiny of his fellowmen struck Falconer between his eyes ... A love for all his brothers, a pity in all their foolish and vain...
Clearly, the two planes had struck at 21,000 ft. over the Painted Desert, the faster overtaking the slower. The dead, scattered out over 2,000 yards of arid land, had burned in the fires of the crash. Of 128 men, women and children aboard the two aircraft, none had survived. It was the worst commercial airline disaster in U.S. aviation history...
...Northwesterners doubt that the investment will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...