Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving. On the largest collective farms, dormitories were thrown up so that workers would not lose time by going home to sleep. Around Moscow 75,000 students spent...
Lodge, now running for reelection to the United States Senate, just returned from active duty as a Major in the American Forces on the Libyan Desert. Serving as military observer, he took part in one battle and narrowly escaped being killed. Lodge, in a previous newspaper interview, praised the performance of the "General Grant" tank in gruelling service on the desert...
Ever since the Hill of Jesus began to turn up in war dispatches from North Africa, people have wondered how an Egyptian hill came to have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms...
From Africa's midst came reports that the Fighting French were preparing a drive up through the desert to get in behind Rommel. It might have been only hopeful talk. The men were there, but equipment was short, and in the Vichy territory, to the left of any line of march they could take, the Germans reportedly had taken over airdromes from which they could strike at the U.S. aerial supply line across the African continent...
...goad to action was a new outbreak of rapine and train-wrecking in protest against the jailing of the Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...