Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
...Aden as embryonic oceans. But Ta-zieff's evidence is highly persuasive. For one thing, much of the rock that his expeditions gathered in the area is younger and heavier than typical land rocks, and bears other similarities to specimens found on the ocean floor. For another, the desert regions of the Afar triangle are covered with a thick layer of evap-orites, the salty debris left behind after seawater evaporates. Tazieff and his colleagues also found distinct traces of coral in the area's lava beds, plus a Stone Age ax that was actually encrusted with seashells...
Before the Afar triangle sinks back into the depths-an event that Tazieff reassuringly says is still a considerable time off-the region could enjoy unmatched prosperity. Because it is so geologically active, he speculates that underground fields of superheated water and steam lie just below the desert floor. If Ethiopia and her neighbors tapped this free source of power, they could produce millions of kilowatt hours of electricity at extremely low cost. The electricity could then be used to support large new industries-aluminum, fertilizers and petrochemicals. Thus, one of the world's most forbidding regions might...
...they have already lined up enough customers to start thinking about expanding the line's capacity. Some oil from Egyptian-developed fields in the Western Sinai, which was taken by Israel in the 1967 war, may be funneled into the pipeline. Test drilling is planned for the Negev Desert this year, and an offshore oil rig is now on its way to the Gulf of Suez to begin exploratory operations. A subsidiary of Denver's King Resources Co. surveyed the Sinai for Israel, and company officials reported recently that the area has enormous potential...
...Scots destroyed Rommell's army in North Africa during World War Two in a sneak attack at night. Bagpipers were lined up as far as one could see in either direction across the moonlit desert. And suddenly, on signal, they began playing, marching out across the sand in their kilts to the sound of ferocious black drums and wailing bagpipes, which, it is said terrified the Germans, who had never heard that sound before...