Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spared: Paris, Rome. Some 4,000 British churches were hit. Canterbury suffered glancing blows: the adjoining priory was badly smashed; Exeter Cathedral took a heavy pounding. At Coventry, scene of Germany's first spiteful "Baedeker raid," the cathedral spire stood alone-a stone tree in a stone desert...
...violent contrast that sets Palestine apart from its Middle Eastern Neighbors is indelibly impressed on the traveller's mind as he makes his way from the desert wastes of Egypt and southern Palestine, and finally catches a glimpse of the ordered green of a Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back...
...here's an eye-witness story by his captor, one Prince Fawaz el Shaalan. A lot of U.S. newspapers and magazines* printed the picture with goggle-eyed captions telling how a jeepload of hunters had cut him out of a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert...
...lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...
...Claudius), Byzantium (Count Belisarius), the mythic age of Greece (Hercules, My Shipmate). His friend, the late great T. E. Lawrence, who spent the best years of his life between the Nile and the Promised Land, once amused himself by mapping the probable route of the Israelites in the Sinai desert. Graves's latest job is in the same line but not so modest...