Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imagine no fate more unpleasant than to be marooned on a desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...
Across San Andreas. Called Project ARIES (for Astronomical Radio Interferometric Earth Surveying), the experiment began last month using NASA'S 210-ft. dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert and a portable 30-ft. antenna at J.P.L.'s home in Pasadena. About 125 miles apart, the antennas formed a direct line across the San Andreas fault, source of California's most devastating quakes. But in coming months the smaller antenna will take to the road and make measurements across other quake-prone terrain. The scientists will bring their equipment back to each site at least once...
...committee nominates McCarthy, he will be a "deadly serious" candidate, he promised, though he has happily never been deadly serious in his discourse for more than a few sentences. Eugene J. promptly demonstrated that by comparing his role to that of John theBaptist preceding Jesus in the desert: "If no one else had shown up, he might have gone ahead with the movement...
...easily have it, as could the West Germans, who renounced all nuclear weapons in 1956 as a condition for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Israel also could quickly become a nuclear power. Since the late 1950s it has had a large atomic reactor at Dimona in the Negev desert; the reactor has been turning out enough fissionable material over the past ten years to build at least one Hiroshima-size bomb annually. Because a bomb can be physically assembled in a matter of weeks if all materials are ready, Israel for all practical purposes could already have a nuclear...
...said. "Just have to go through a little training period. But I think I'll move on." So with that we piled back into the Chevrolet and set off for San Francisco. "I think there'll be some good jobs in 'Frisco," he said as we drove into the desert...