Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...these requirements can be met, Airman Richardson did not say. The U.S. has no region like the desert of Australia where the British Commonwealth's missile center, Woomera ("Womb of Death" in the aboriginal language), has 1,200 miles of desolation to shoot over...
...last three years, some Detroit Symphony musicians had been muttering an obbligato behind their music sheets about the musical methods and tastes of their conductor, Karl Krueger, the 55-year-old Kansan who had led the Seattle and Kansas City orchestras out of a musical desert. Reichhold had an answer to that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good...
...fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered the Mojave Desert...
...story (Trial and Error; Harper; $5). It was also the life story of Zionism. In & out of the action weaves a dramatic subplot: the ironic love story of Weizmann's devotion to Great Britain, which began with high-minded platonic exchanges and ended with bloody fighting in the desert, where (between them) the British and the Zionists had produced an infant state...