Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of bandits who pounced upon them when they landed, "like starving people who find some meat." He claimed that he had escaped with Spradley in a truck and that his companion had been shot after a wild chase. They were left for dead in a desert until the Indians happened upon them, bringing Spradley to a hospital and kidnaping McLemore...
...combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...
Edward Said's article on Orientalism came like a breath of fresh air. It is high time that the American press stopped depicting Muslim Arabs as greedy desert bandits or cold-blooded terrorists...
...ceremony began in brilliant afternoon sunshine at the U.S. monitoring station in the Sinai desert. First the Egyptian army band and honor guard marched smartly past the assembled officials and journalists. Israeli musicians and soldiers quickly followed. Then each band played for the guests, and played again. And again. And again. By the time an hour had passed, most spectators suspected something had gone wrong, and they were correct: after 17 months of negotiations, the two countries were still haggling over the language in the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and its accompanying documents...
Much of the cartel's wealth has been squandered on well-intentioned but poorly planned and executed development schemes: atomic power plants for Iran, whose bountiful natural resources can meet that nation's energy needs for a century or more; steel mills and petrochemical plants at remote desert sites throughout the Gulf, where transportation costs alone render the products uncompetitive...