Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. But for thousands of years, there have been tales that the Sahara's arid surface concealed a "large river without water." Last week a team of scientists from the U.S. and Egypt announced that they had definitive evidence that long ago a region of the vast desert in southern Egypt and northern Sudan was a lacy network of major water ways. The proof: radar images of the Sahara taken by the space shuttle Columbia...
...sigh of relief back here," said Winant Sidle, a spokesman for manufacturer Martin Marietta. David Harris of the Army Missile Command, who had watched three previous tests go awry, wept as the missile disappeared in a corkscrew of smoke and headed downrange for 66 nautical miles over a desert dotted with sagebrush and yucca. "Congress told us we needed a good firing, and we got one today," he said, his voice choked with emotion. "The message was pretty clear...
...longer requires children to obtain parental consent before going to war. Regular troops have been telling of "tearful boys" in their midst, and a twelve-year-old Iranian prisoner of war interviewed on Iraqi television said that two of his friends were shot by Islamic Guards while attempting to desert...
...came to rest on Runway 22 at California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, the space shuttle Columbia looked a little travel-weary. In the orange glow of the early-morning desert sun, the ship's protective tiles showed pits and bruises. Dark streaks lined the fuselage, and a tire was flat, apparently worn down by the friction of a wheel that locked on landing. Casting a baleful eye on the craft that has logged 10.8 million miles on five voyages, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of NASA'S shuttle program, commented...
Almost without exception, every scene opens with a breathtaking vista against which the figures can only be discerned with some difficulty. The predominant desert landscape mirrors the legendary themes. Miraculously, Schepisi has made every desert shot so fresh and grand and has integrated this environment into the plot, rather than using it as a mere backdrop. Numerous close-up shots of the desert zoom in on the gritty textures of the ground and the animal life. Thus, Schepisi places humans somewhere between the solid ground and the expanses, and similarly between their actions and the vast myths surrounding them...