Word: desertion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well-to-do Saudis are seldom reprimanded for high living abroad, even when they lose heavily at the gambling tables of Monte Carlo or Las Vegas...
...seconds the four giant engines roared, blasting clouds of dust into the cold desert air. Then the snow-white aircraft sped down the runway and made a graceful ascent to 10,000 ft. over Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. When it landed 90 minutes later, its first flight test was considered nearly perfect. "It equaled our predictions in every way," said Pilot Charles Bock...
...there was another Jack Benny -less comic but considerably more generous. It was that trouper who traversed the country, raising some $6 million for America's leading orchestras. Thank yous were always abruptly dismissed. "Soloing with Leonard Bernstein," he liked to claim, "is like being on a desert island with Zsa Zsa Gabor and her boy friend. You feel you're not needed...
When the African republic of Botswana was born in 1966, its future seemed as bleak as most of its arid countryside. A landlocked nation the size of France, occupied largely by the Kalahari Desert, the former British protectorate was suffering from six years of drought, an impoverished government, and a subsistence economy based almost entirely on cattle raising. Now, discoveries of vast mineral deposits promise to lift Botswana above the problems shared by the rest of black Africa's non-oil-producing countries...
...might have to worry about a job," Bok says, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." Bok also announces the auctioning-off of half the glass flowers, to the government of Saudi Arabia. "We need the money," he says, "and they want to make the desert bloom...