Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...militiaman from the Mourabitoun [garrison] of the leftist Independent Nasserite Movement. Like the corpse, much of the town was burning; flames crackled inside the solidly built houses of what was once a well-to-do community of 28,000, mostly Christians. Smoke wafted over the debris-cluttered streets and rose in a solid sheet that was visible for miles around. A gas tank exploded with a dull thump; an automatic rifle opened fire in the distance...
...Growth. Most of the boosts came in the midst of the recession, and would-be passengers saved money by staying home. Air travel in the U.S. had increased by 14% a year through the late '60s, then flattened out, but jumped 12% in 1972. It rose 6% in 1973, a mere 1% in 1974, and last year showed almost no growth at all. Pan Am, Eastern, American and Trans World Airlines plunged deep into the red. Not surprisingly, airlines ordered few new jets. Even United, the biggest U.S. airline and one that is still flying at a profit, could...
...Paleonile, or second Nile, followed, emerging around 3.3 million years ago. The biggest and longest-lived of the five rivers, the Paleonile probably rose in the western Sudan after a prolonged rainy period, filling the Nile Valley with silt that eventually pushed the Mediterranean back out of Egypt. Then, around 1.8 million years ago, a 1-million-year drought dried up the Paleonile, gave birth to the Sahara and turned much of Egypt into a desert that Said says must have resembled the arid "Empty Quarter" of Saudi Arabia...
...gamble: the ship to New York and the land of opportunity. In 1927, he won his initial Broadway designing credit for a show called 2 x 2 = 5. It was the first of 88 sets for theater, opera and ballet that bear his name. They include South Pacific, The Rose Tattoo, I Am a Camera, Bus Stop, Diary of Anne Frank...
Perhaps the most instructive altercation in the program came when a tall American black man in a shabby coat rose towards the end of the session and said that although he had learned the answers to some questions this afternoon, the meeting had struck him as "intellectual masturbation" by a bunch of closeted academics who haggle too much among themselves in "the Harvard Science Center and other bullshit halls," estranged from the "common man." The man, who would identify himself only as a "resident of Roxbury," later whispered that he felt the need to remind "intellectuals of their responsibility...