Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desert Venture," a film on the Near Eastern operations of the Arabian American Oil Company, will be shown this afternoon for graduates and undergraduates interested in careers abroad in the oil business. The film, which is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at Carpenter G at the Business School, is being presented by the Office of Student Placement...
...July 16, 1945, all the long months at Los Alamos were put to the test in the New Mexico desert. Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell was watching Oppenheimer when it happened; "He grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself . . . When the announcer shouted 'Now!' and there came this tremendous burst of light, followed ... by the deep-growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief." Oppenheimer recalls that two lines of the Bhagavad-Gita flashed through his mind...
More than 3,000 years ago the Egyptians pursued the Jews out of Egypt northward into the desert. Last week in the midst of Succot, or Feast of the Tabernacles (which commemorates their ancient exodus), the Jews were again on the move. This time they were headed south, driving the Egyptians before them. With their occupation of Beersheba,* traditional southern boundary of the biblical kingdom of David and Solomon, the Jews felt they had really come home. Cabled Israel's Ben-Gurion to the forces on the southern front: "With your blood you have reforged the link with...
...Gurion and his ministers took a leisurely day and a half and four cabinet sessions to "study" the document and take full advantage of their luck. By the time U.N. got around to sending a clear cease-fire order, Beersheba had fallen and the control of the Negeb desert was solidly in Israeli hands...
...Palestine last week, an earnest gesture of peace became a clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling...