Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cards at the 21 games; croupiers stopped the roulette wheels; and the casinos fell silent as players restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal...
...controls about 1,200 mines in Nevada and runs the Husite operation that owns about 30,000 acres of undeveloped desert near Las Vegas. Hughes bought most of the land during the Korean War as a possible site for relocation of defense plants. Total investment in the Nevada mining operations has been about $18 million, and return is described as inadequate. There is also an architectural engineering firm called Archisysterns...
...Mormon palace guard against Maheu, Hughes abruptly decamped from Las Vegas and moved to the Bahamas, leaving behind some of his private files. Soon after, while his servants in Nevada were in a state of confusion over his sudden departure, someone entered Hughes' 9th-floor penthouse in the Desert Inn and removed sheaves of his personal memos. Most of them ended up in the hands of Hank Greenspun, editor and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. He published some of them and showed others to a few journalists writing about Hughes. Most of the memos remain secreted by Greenspun...
Located some 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles at the edge of the Mojave Desert, Palmdale (pop. 13,500), Calif., is a sleepy town where the loudest sounds are usually the whistling of desert winds and the popping noise of exhausts as teen-age dragsters race their cars. But Palmdale has been lifted, quite literally, out of obscurity. Scientists have recently discovered that it is in the center of a 120-mile-long, kidney-shaped area of land that rose as much as ten inches in the early 1960s. The phenomenon has earned the desert town a dubious notoriety...
...went to the monastery with a great fear. I wondered how I could fill this heart of mine in the desert, alone, because I am a man fond of human social contact...