Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounding into town and Arco's streets were jammed with jubilant wheat farmers and ranchers, shouting, cheering and recklessly counting their future wealth. The Atomic Energy Commission had just announced that the U.S.'s first nuclear reactor testing station would be built on 400,000 acres of desert southeast of town...
...bare-ribbed buttes thrust out of stone-black lava flows. The Big Lost River sinks without a trace into its black, broken ground. The place is 20 miles from the Craters of the Moon, 90 miles from the River of No Return. Except for 20,000 acres of desert grazing land, the government holds title to the entire area...
...little alarmed by the excitement, AEC warned that there would be relatively few workers at first, 6,000 construction workers at peak, only 2,000 permanent settlers after building was complete. But Arco (and Idaho) went right on dreaming of factories in the desert, and daily passenger trains to replace the single coach-and-baggage-car that now shuttles along the Union Pacific spur to Blackfoot...
Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...