Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiroshimans still reckoned all time as before & after pika-don (flash-bang), but the city was slowly shuffling back to life and growth. Directly under the spot where the bomb had burst eleven months ago, a small vegetable garden flourished. The people were clearing paths through the desert of debris (it would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad...
...months both candidates had chugged up & down the broad boot of Mexico. From the choking desert of upper Sonora to the Mayan tombs of Yucatán, they had harangued enthusiastic, tamale-bolting, beer-guzzling crowds. Because Miguel Alemán was backed by the big Government machine, which had more beer, his crowds were largest. But the peons genuinely approved his promises of sensible, moderate continuation of the revolutionary ideal. And local businessmen, with whom he held long, earnest round-table conferences on regional affairs, believed in his determination to forge today's great Latin dream-industrialization...
...Near Indio, Calif., sheriff's deputies finally overtook a car they had chased across the desert, informed surprised Motorist F. H. Davison: "You left your wife and mother-in-law at the gas station 50 miles back...
...poking through musty, 1,000-year-old shrouds dug up from coastal desert tombs, Bailey rediscovered lost weaving techniques (spinning had once been so ' fine-they sometimes used mouse's hair-that the shrouds ran thread counts of 250 to the inch). On burro trips in the 12,000-ft. sierra, Bailey uncovered the finesse of the ancient backstrap loom. In Andean fields, he rubbed wild-flower petals into his palm, watched the sweat precipitate streaks of true dye colors; he tested and proved 420 hues. In the Amazon highlands he found long-forgotten "workable" hardwoods...
...might be added," continues the letter, "that during the last weeks of the spring term much discontent prevailed in the house and the food strike threatened was traceable directly to the forced food savings program. Most of the discontent is attributable to specific items omitted-break, cakes, and desert. These items, while not always nourishing, possibly are the most refreshing portion of a usual meal, and the psychologic value shouldn't be over shadowed by dietary considerations...