khamsin
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The khamsin is a baleful wind that flares out of the deserts, drying out the land and the people until the flesh fairly crackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
A third category of khamsin sufferers have more complex reactions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving up out of the desert each spring and fall, the khamsin is an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good.
From Time Magazine Archive
The khamsin blew in hot, sandy spurts, and lulled; then came again in hotter, more shrivelling bursts "From Hell!" thought the troopers, one and all.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)
