Word: sere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luck that the tomb of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 B.C., escaped the predations of grave robbers over the millenniums. Largely luck too that British Archaeologist Howard Carter found the royal tomb in 1922 after 15 years of fruitless searching through the sere Valley of the Kings. Perhaps the timing was also lucky when J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, began negotiating with Egyptian authorities in 1974 for a U.S. showing of the tomb's contents: a wave of pro-American feeling was just sweeping Cairo. In any case, millions...
...first installment of the New Media Bible, as it is called, consists of ten 20-minute segments covering Genesis 1-22 (from the Creation to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) and Luke 1-2 (the Annunciation, the Nativity and Jesus' youth). They were filmed in the sere landscape of the Holy Land and neighboring areas, using largely unknown actors. One exception: Topol, the Israeli star of Hollywood's Fiddler on the Roof, who portrays Abraham...
...drought extends back almost a year, right through a mild winter with little snow and a dry spring. Now the subsoil is starved for moisture. South Dakota's grasslands, for example, never had a chance to turn green; they are sere and yellow. Crops planted in the spring-oats, barley, durum, hard red wheat and even some corn-have been stunted by the scorching sun. Under normal conditions, they would be knee-high by this time. In many cases, they have, in fact, grown barely six inches tall...
...joint service for five of the students who were Mormons. A second joint service was held for Tom Brooks, 17, and his steady girl friend Lori Killingsworth, 18. But most of the rites were conducted individually, followed by burial among the withered flowers that were scattered about the sere 20-acre graveyard four miles outside town. On all sides lie ripening rice fields, surrounded in turn by the orchards that make this the Peach Bowl of America. In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes for a mountain range in this sunbaked, mosquito-plagued tableland some...
...graduates, a free compulsory education program that virtually eliminated illiteracy, a comprehensive rural electrification program and a G.N.P. that grew from $11.6 billion in 1948 to $165.2 billion last year. At the same time, Christian Democratic governments presided over an epic migration of some 11 million Italians from the sere poverty of the rural south and east to new jobs and new lives in the industrial north and west...