Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forest now and moving down, swinging in great ares along the desert steep sides of the mountains, Merilee's self is a windshield wiper screeching on dry glass. A tarantula fuzzy black with age scurries out of her way and stuffs himself almost all back into his hole. Spider at least has a home to go to. Sun burning and no moisture anywhere but the sticky-salty tastes from Merilee's eyes. GIRL! she is calling...
Once little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget...
Happier Man. The train meets the Colorado River and follows it for 238 miles, wending through myriad multihued gorges. At twilight the Cal Zephyr descends into a red desert and then goes highballing across the salt flats of Utah. "I take this train every chance I get," says George Vogel, 45, a budget analyst. "It's my form of relaxation, a chance to get back to myself. I don't have to worry about telephone calls, cutting the grass or crying kids. And when I get home, I'm a happier...
...were told they could join their relatives in Israel. They quit their jobs, sold their possessions and waited for documents that never came. In desperation, the group finally wrote to Israel's Premier Golda Meir, pointing out that their appeals to Russian officials had "disappeared like teardrops in desert sands." Mrs. Meir, who is Russian-born, forwarded their "sincere and heartfelt cry of distress" to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission...
...When the streams and lakes of what is now California's Death Valley dried up 25,000 years ago, the desert pupfish somehow endured in the few remaining hot springs and saline creeks. Even now these tiny (2½-in-long) evolutionary freaks can tolerate water six times more salty than the ocean's. They frolic in water with temperatures up to 112°; in freezing water they simply hibernate. According to Cry California magazine, the economically useless pupfish will soon test man's reverence for life. Spring Meadows Inc., a Nevada farming company, plans to start...