Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were, as he put it, "complex and very difficult." At the very least, though, he thought that he knew the lay of the land and the antagonists' basic positions. No such luck. Halfway through his five-capital tour last week, Waldheim found that the alignments were shifting like desert sands, and that certain features on the map were being altered...
...found that Israel's position was also hardening. This week Israel's ruling Labor Party is expected to adopt a hawkish program, originated by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, for economic penetration and development of occupied territories on the West Bank of the Jordan and in the Sinai desert-which even some Israelis protest is "creeping annexation...
...script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...
Most of the newcomers who flocked to settle in the state believed that if a desert town was a good place to live, an oasis was even better. So they planted and watered thick lawns of Bermuda grass, neat privet hedges and thousands of shade trees, notably the mulberry. As a result, Arizona's cities now seem almost as lush and lovely as any East Coast suburb...
...native vegetation, which has sticky grains of pollen that are carried from plant to plant by birds, insects and bats, the imported plants produce the kind of pollen that is easily detached and carried by the wind. Consequently, the Arizona air is laden with pollen pollution. "The desert is a wonderful place for wind pollination because the wind blows most of the year and the growing season lasts most of the year," says University of Arizona Geoscientist Dr. Allen M. Solomon. "We're just about at the pollen levels in the East...