Word: wasteland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the affected territory is uninhabited wasteland of little value, but much of it is valuable timberland where losses will amount to millions of dollars. For Alaskans, money and inconvenience are not the only toll: they worry about the wildlife that is endangered. The West Fork, Cement Creek and Matson Creek fires are burning through some of the finest caribou grazing lands in the state. The herds feed on forest-floor vegetation called "caribou moss," which takes between 100 and 150 years to grow...
...feeling. Some playgoers insist that they hate and cannot comprehend these modern plays. The playwrights counter that this hate is what Oscar Wilde described as "the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face." No doubt, they are reporting as honestly as they know how on a moral wasteland. But it is a selected part of the terrain of life, and selection implies exclusion...
...Barrow Island, a cyclone-swept wasteland off Western Australia that until now has supported only kangaroos, lizards and one lonely tree, an international team of roustabouts is drilling with intensity and anticipation. The Western Australian government last month declared Barrow to be an economically viable oilfield, expects that by 1968 it will be producing 20,000 bbl. daily for a group made up of Shell, Texaco, Standard Oil of California and Ampol, an Australian firm...
Comedians and novelists alike attested tirelessly to the aromatic glories of the Brighton Beach Express and the Gowanus Canal, the beery, cheery heartland of dock-wallopers and sailors' broads and Yiddishe mammas, the wasteland of peeling tenements where a Tree Grew. Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from Al Capone to Barbra Streisand was congratulated on being from...
...most spectacular U.S. engineering project of the war is Cam Ranh Bay, a 15-mile-long, five-mile-wide deep-water harbor 190 miles north of Saigon. Seven months ago it was a pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from...