Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple of sun-scorched, rocky acres on the outskirts of the town of Sérignan, in the department of Vaucluse. On this scrap of earth, which he fondly called his Eden, Henri Fabre settled down, at the age of 55, to the full-time pursuit of his life work: the study of living insects...
...kind of punishment of the Christian world, which for a long period had more or less betrayed Christianity in its practical endeavor, and despised the lessons of the saints, and forsaken the immense herd of the hopeless whom destitution and unlivable conditions of existence riveted to hell on earth...
...Boykin, a steam-engine of a man with a 50-inch chest, was somewhat awed by what he had wrought. "Here we have the representatives of all the good people of the world," said he. "I have counted up, and over a billion people, half the people of the earth are represented here tonight to pay honor to one of the greatest men we have ever produced...
...Ambato, a moderate shock several minutes ahead of the cruncher had been warning enough to send people into the streets. Some rushed to church to pray. Then the earth heaved and Ambato's cathedral collapsed, burying in its ruins 70 children and the priest who had been teaching them. Other churches fell in; 70% of the city's houses were made uninhabitable. Bricks and plaster blocked Ambato's streets...
Africa was really hard-hit, suffering the worst drought in a century. In many parts of South Africa, once high corn and grazing land looked, after the 14-month drought, like scorched earth. At Mombasa, the game warden for the Kenya coast reported some 5,000 elephants stampeding toward the coast in search of water...