Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work, Dietrich is notable mainly for her almost martial sense of loyalty to her man. She may flirt in Morocco with everything in trousers (and sometimes those in skirts, when she herself is wearing white-tie-and-tails), but in the end, she follows Gary Cooper off into the desert still wearing her stiletto heels. Again, in Shanghai Express, she gives herself to Warner Oland only to save Clive Brooks' life-and ends up getting Brooks after...
...ideal site for a nuclear plant is one for which there is no evidence of any seismic activity over the past millennia; is not subject to hurricanes, tornadoes or floods. It should be in an endless expanse of unpopulated desert with an abundant supply of very cold water flowing nowhere and containing no aquatic life. Most important, it should be adjacent to a major load center...
...Robert McCulloch, 59, arranged the improbable purchase of the London Bridge, which was not exactly falling down into the Thames but was badly in need of replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
...pointlessly low humor, to probe deeper into the diseased minds of Madison Avenue with careful, closely-drawn parodies that are scarcely distinguishable from the originals. The new-car ad, for instance, uses a standard, wide-angle shot-sequence of a chromium monster gleaming in the middle of a desert, a sequence taped from an actual commercial. The dubbed-over pitch makes the claims about the car that, in an ever-tightening ring of circumlocution, the promoters of Fords, Chevrolets and Pontiacs have been working towards for years. "This car protects you from the outside world. Here is the car that...
...term "winter soldier" is based on a statement by Tom Paine: "Beware of the summer soldiers and fair-weather patriots who will desert their country in its time of need...