Word: waterless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desert of Failure. The terrain itself is the real villain of the novel. The "territory" is a dreadful place of waterless rivers where turtles encrust a rock like scabs, and the "so-oopwha wind" reddens the sky with sandstorms. The only hope for anyone in such a place is to get away from it. Feebly, Ferris' daughter tries to escape, but, though beautiful, she is dim-witted and can't pass the exams that might get her a city job. The place is too much for her; the jackals and the thorn trees have won, she wails. Novelist...
...Kuwait from a poverty-plagued sand pile at the head of the Persian Gulf into the world's most prosperous Arab state. With a national income of $30,000 a year per native family, his 468,000 people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag the once backward country from the 10th into the 20th century. Without collecting...
...named principal of a new red brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing five teachers, and paid what he now terms "the magnificent, munificent salary of $125 a month." Yet those nine months in a county where the Mexican kids lived in waterless, crumbling shacks and the median education of Mexican adults is still a mere 1.4 years proved the most rewarding of Lyndon's school years...
...action. It has cleaned up sewage that had been accumulating for weeks in the basement of a city-owned building; towed away autos that had been abandoned for more than a month, clogging residential streets while they were gradually stripped of parts; stepped-up housing inspections of heatless, waterless slum buildings; installed a long-deferred central telephone to process housing complaints...
Whittaker Chambers spent his life searching for final answers. Spurred by "the need for truth" and "the fear of error," his search carried him into what Albert Camus called "those waterless deserts where thought reaches its confines." After the glaring publicity of the Alger Hiss trial and the 1952 publication of his own confessional autobiography Witness, Chambers withdrew to the seclusion of his Maryland farm. Often his first waking thought was, "Must I live through another day?" This posthumous book, made up of diary excerpts, letters, extended reflections on himself and his time, is the fruit of those years. Edited...