Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway that goes from Gallup to Albuquerque rises and bends through one small section of hills before stretching out across the desert. As we drove through those hills, the girl told us to look for a place that sold gas and merchandise and that accepted Shell credit cards. We spotted a likely place-it had a sign that said "We accept credit cards" -but as it turned out, you couldn't charge the souvenirs. We stopped and got gas and browsed around this stupid curio shop for some time, looking at the standard souvenirs and the over-priced Indian jewelry...
...means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...
...Wherever the environment issue cropped up, the result was the same. Voters within the Mojave Water District of California's San Bernardino County refused a proposed coal-burning power plant despite the increased taxes it would have contributed to the district. Reason: the plant might pollute the clear desert air. At Mercer Island in Lake Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve a wooded park? Or did they want to bulldoze the tall conifers to make way for a nine-hole community golf course? The voters of the community decided...
...sitting in front of me holding onto my feet. After telling me twice that he came from Maine but had been living in D.C. for the last two weeks, he admitted that he wanted to leave. "I want to get out of here. but I just can't desert-I don't know how I got here in the first place-I was going to spend the week-end in Maine...
...Israelis work harder at miracle making than the men and women of the famed research center that bears his name. Now marking its 25th anniversary, the Weizmann Institute for Science has grown from an obscure agriculture station in the desert town of Rehovot, 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, to a 250-acre complex with 17 major departments that explore everything from atomic physics and molecular biology to seismology. Even the Arabs recognize its importance. It was one of the first targets that Radio Cairo claimed had been destroyed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war-though not a single Egyptian...