Word: wasteland
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...Wasteland Emirate. When the Turks sided with Germany in World War I, Abdullah and his father and brothers joined the British, led their followers in the Arab Revolt. Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"), chief British agent among the Arabs, thought Abdullah "too clever" and unpredictable to be the Arab leader of the rebellion, picked his brother Feisal instead...
...took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities." Though "relatively humble" people, Henry and Annette lived and traveled with as many as 39 servants (senior officials carried a train of more than 100). They raised four children in a swampy wasteland teeming with wild pigs, buffalo, cobras, scorpions, fleas, flies and ("most abundantly") leeches. Fever and dysentery were everyday matters-trifles compared with the cholera which, by slow degrees, killed their beautiful youngest child...
...billions and our goods are going into a Europe which is worse than bankrupt. It is an ill and disordered Europe, a psychotic wasteland, with certain islands of relative sanity. We should be neither surprised nor disappointed if our dollars do not heal the inner hurts of Europe...
...must the displaced European Jews be forced to remain on the continent that has served as their slaughter-house, continually threatened by latent anti-Semtism? Why, after they have built a comparatively modern nation out of a wasteland in one of the outstanding social experiments of our times, must the Palestinian Jews be thwarted, not by their own inadequacies, not by the forces of nature, but by the duplicity of friends...
...Germany with the U.S. Army and Military Government, Koerner had painted ruins and ruined people. Now, back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked...