Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city sprang up where no city seemed to belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become a burning symbol of Israeli nationalism. Said a Lausanne observer last week: "Three Jews in Tel Aviv can't get together for a drink without singing the Song of the Negeb...
Married. Lala Andersen, 45, Swedish-born idol of Berlin cabarets and popularizer of Lili Marlene, the nostalgic song ; which haunted Montgomery's "Desert Rats" and Rommel's Afrika Korps (the British claimed the melody as victor's booty); and Arthur ("Thury") Beul, 34, Swiss tunesmith; she for the second time; in Zollikon, Switzerland...
This week, the as-yet-unsponsored Black Robe goes on the TV screen for the fifth time, and Lord-satisfied with its format-has turned it over to ex-Movie Director Ed Sutherland, who will run it for NBC. Heading north to his 3,000-acre island off Mt. Desert in Maine, Lord carried with him the idea for another TV show. "I'm going to call it Sidewalks of New York," he said. "It might open just showing people's feet as they walk along, or maybe just their heads. And I'll show reflections...
...auditorium of a Jersey City high school and harangued a crowd. He had given them the great Jersey City Medical Center, the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, he declaimed, his ancient dewlaps shaking above a high, old-fashioned collar. "Will we turn over these buildings," he demanded, "and desert motherhood?" The 5,000 yelled: "No." On & on the old man went, pleading, threatening, appealing for consideration of favors graciously done by a corrupt political machine...