Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles did not want to live next door to generating plants that spew soot and noxious gases, discharge hot water and spawn unsightly transmission lines. As a result, the area's electric utilities decided to build new plants as far away from people as possible-in the desert shared by Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Eventually, a consortium of 23 public and private organizations in seven states were involved in planning the distribution of energy from what will be the second largest power project in U.S. history. When completed, at least six huge coal-fired plants* will produce...
...Apollo astronauts looked around them, they saw a true desert-devoid of life, devoid of water, devoid of atmosphere (some five per cent of the atmosphere of the moon is man-made). The level volcanic seas or mares of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites cover much of the near side of the moon and provided the first lunar samples. Here the volcanic bedrock has been repeatedly hit by meteorites and broken up so that a layer of broken rock and dust from 6 to 20 feet deep lies on the surface. Some of these rocks have been lying...
...book as strongly probable if not inevitable. Still, he has made the effort to deliver King from that place in the public mind, landscaped in huge mockups of magazine covers and television screens, in which King was imprisoned; because King himself attempted to make an exit from this cerebral desert, but was cut down for his courage and vision...
...imagine his inflection, particularly on the word "peace," when he suggested that King's behavior was hardly befitting the standards expected of a Nobel Prize winner. Equally conceivable is the overwhelming sense of dislocation and betrayal that must have hit King like the hot and hard wind of a desert sand storm. The camera and the microphone, which had been his two biggest weapons from the beginning, were now the nails with which he was being crucified for having practiced the love he preached...
Sadat's Suez plan calls for the Israelis to withdraw from their fortified Bar-Lev Line to new positions farther back in the desert along a line from just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...