Word: treeless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates. Other such territories are either free or have been placed under U.N. trusteeship; but the adjoining Union of South Africa goes blandly on ruling its old mandate as if it were a permanent province...
...admission of serious trouble-promised that the communization of Tibet would be delayed at least six years. Many Chinese Red civilians were sent home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...
Tenements, still the city's drab cincture to its towers, menaced a thousand rubbish-strewn, treeless streets. Subway passengers broiled; Broadway theaters and side-street restaurants hung "Delightfully Air Conditioned" banners or closed for the season. The greenery-edged hem of the metropolis echoed to domestic sounds -the whir of lawnmowers, the jingling ice-cream-truck bells, the clink of beer glasses, shrieks of splashing children in backyard wading pools...
There were no inhabitants along the treeless gulf shore to cheer the Israeli pullout, but Gaza's 300,000 Arabs (220,000 of them Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief) more than made up for it. In Rafah crowds danced all day, shouting "Good Hammarskjold, good Abdel Nasser." After U.N.forces freed 120 political prisoners from Gaza's jail, thousands of Arabs paraded carrying such slogans as: "Welcome as guests but not rulers," and "We do not accept any rule except Egypt's." But the UNEF's taciturn commander, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, ordered...
...past year it has become the biggest of all Gulf Coast oil booms. Thirty-five companies have sunk 171 producing wells deep into the treeless flat, now get around 24,000 bbls. daily from the field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main...