Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South, Mussolini's Somaliland army, creeping north under command of Italy's ablest colonial fighter, lean General Graziani, was fighting harder and making more progress. Roads meant nothing in this rolling desert country where the advance was from water hole to water hole. Each hole was held by a little group of fanatical natives ready to charge and die at the first bang of a gun. It was slow and bloody business. General Graziani finally called out his bombing planes. Soon it was reported that the Italians were using a new, yellowish gas on the terrified Ethiopians...
...Republicans have made no attempt to force the administration to define its general policies as a basis on which to formulate definite alternative issues. Their opposition has been as sterile as the Sahara desert. Devoting all their attention to discrediting Rooseveltian ideas, they have given the public no intimation of the program they would follow if elected to office. As in 1932, so in 1936, recovery will be the fundamental issue. The Republicans must offer a platform which, while conservative, yet offers to the common people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal...
...undergraduates who desert Cambridge today for the Army game will receive specially reduced rates on nearly every means of transportation...
...French Somaliland frontier, in an effort to cut Ethiopia's only railroad at Dire Dawa (see map, p. 18). Fighting as hard, suffering as much as the publicized troops to the north, they had captured the mountain of Mussa Ali last week and were slowly driving through desert country toward the railroad. Well aware was the Conquering Lion of Judah of the importance of this force. At Jigjiga, 65 miles from Dire Dawa, he had assembled the best equipped, best trained of his fighters, was preparing to make what many people believe to be the only formal battle...
...Eagle Beak, styling himself "the Hero of Gallipoli," though his role in that British shambles was hardly stellar, pointed out over Harar Province and said portentously, "Out there will be the grave of Italian Fascism. When the Italian native troops hear of ME they will desert...