Word: wadi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built, started or planned 16 dams between the snow-veined mountains of Kurdistan and the steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed two great barrages that this year caught the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates and led them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream its contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. Land under cultivation has jumped 40% as 20,000 families (an estimated 150,000 persons) have settled on newly...
After hostilities had clamed in Palestine, still more interest among tribesmen centered on finding the smelly pieces of parchment. Late in 1951, natives offered deVaux some fragments found eleven miles south of Qumran, at Wadi Muraba'at. The new finds, including second century A.D. Hebrew texts, had no connection with the Essene library. Shortly afterward, another discovery was reported closer to Qumran...
...development board has already built irrigation dams across the Tigris and Euphrates north of Baghdad, while dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...
Meanwhile, a huge bite of the company revenue goes to support a royal regime that is itself a fantastic blend of East and West, ancient and modern. The money pours in like a flash flood in a dry wadi but it flows out even faster. This year's government budget estimates a deficit of close to $60 million. Little of the huge sums that are spent trickle past the palace gates into the hands of ordinary Saudis...
...studying the well-kept cave dwellings, Perrot could form a pretty good idea of the lives and customs of the pre-Abraham Horites. They were farmers who got water from the bed of a nearby wadi and stored it in underground cisterns. They had sheep, cattle and dogs, but no horses or asses. They grew barley, wheat, lentils and peas. Two of their barley varieties are still grown today, but their wheat is a novel type not found even in ancient Egypt. The harvested grain was stored in underground chambers or in massive earthenware jars for current...